Lot 253: Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer 1598-1657 Amsterdam)

Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer 1598-1657 Amsterdam) A tower in a hilly landscape near Rome pen and brown ink, brown wash, black ink framing lines 7¾ x 7¼ in. (20 x 18.4 cm.)

20 x 18.4 cm.

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 29, pl. 62 (catalogue by J. Giltaij). Amsterdam, Amsterdam Museum, In de ban van Italië: Tekeningen uit een Amsterdamse verzameling, 1995, no. 11 (catalogue by I. Oud, M. Jonker and M. Schapelhouman).

N.J. 't Sas (L. 178c). with B. Houthakker, Amsterdam, Master Drawings, 1969, no. 6.

The house shown in the present drawing reappears in other works by Breenbergh, such as drawings in the Albertina, Vienna (M. Roethlisberger, Bartholomäus Breenbergh, Handzeichnungen, Berlin, 1969, no. 34) and formerly on the art market (Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1966, lot 78). It also appears, from an almost identical viewpoint, in a drawing by Paul Bril (1554-1626) in the Louvre (F. Lugt, Musée du Louvre: Inventaire général des dessins des écoles du nord: École flamande, Paris, 1949, I, no. 424).