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View of the City of Rome with the Tiber, Castel Sant' Angelo and St. Peter's

View of the City of Rome with the Tiber, Castel Sant' Angelo and St. Peter's

Object type Drawing
Genre Village, Town and Cityscape
Date 1594
Dimensions 17.9 x 26.9 cm
Support Paper
Medium Pen and brown ink with blue and brown wash
Signature "Roma 13 november 1594"
Signature location lower left
Further inscription "Bril"; UR: "10"; Watermark: long shield with star over M (similar to Briquet 8390/8391)
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Bailey/Walker cat. #DARM.HL.1
Location Darmstadt, Germany
Collection Hessisches Landesmuseum
Accession numbers inv. #AE 397
Tags Church, City, River, Rome, Boat
Schrey 1930, nr. 259 (as Paul Bril)
Darmstadt 1964, nr. 11 (as Brueghel)
Bergsträsser 1965, p. 260-64, pl. 18
Paris 1971, nr. 51
Krönig 1972, p. 168 ff., fig. 4
Winner 1972, p. 122-4, pl. 2
Berlin 1975, p. 93-4, nr. 110, pl. 215
Brown 1975b, p. 832
Bergsträsser 1979, p. 38-39, nr. 26
Zwollo 1982, p. 95, fig. 12
Winner 1985, p. 88-90
Essen/Vienna 1997-98, p. 33, fig. 2
Märker/Bergsträsser 1998, p. 66 ff.
Munich 2013, p. 41, nr. 18
Darmstadt 1964, nr. 11 (as Brueghel)
Paris 1971, nr. 51
Berlin 1975, nr. 110
Munich 2013, nr. 18
Paige Walker
September 30, 2013

According to Louisa Ruby, Jan Brueghel "used a similar bridge and the motif of St. Peter’s from his drawing View of the City of Rome with the Tiber, Castel Sant'Angelo and St. Peters in numerous paintings, including Munich’s Large Fish Market with Self Portrait and the Aeneas Carrying Anchises from the Burning Troy (Munich)"