About the Artwork
Italian Village on a River
ca.1627
Bartholomeus Breenbergh
1598-1657
Dutch
Unknown
Pen and brush and dark brown ink and brown wash over graphite on white laid paper
Sheet: 12 1/2 × 19 3/4 inches (31.8 × 50.2 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund
34.90
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, center, verso: Jan de Bisschop | 1640-1686 Inscribed, in pencil, lower right corner, verso: 0.1727 [in circle]
Watermark: [anchor and a figure in a shield] (cf. Heawood nos. 1346-1354)
Provenance
E. Parsons & Sons (London, England)
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Scheyer, Ernst. Drawings and Miniatures from the XII to the XX Century. Detroit, 1936, no. 86. [as Jan de Bisschop]
Rothlisberger, Marcel. Bartholomeus Breenberg, Handzeichnungen. Berlin, 1969, no. 98.
Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, pp. 24-25, no. 5 (ill.).
Perlove, Shelley and George S. Keyes, ed. Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin. Notre Dame, 2015, pp. 140-141, cat. 54 (ill.).
From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 9.
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Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Italian Village on a River, ca.1627, pen and brush and dark brown ink and brown wash over graphite on white laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 34.90.
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