Buildings Amid Ruins in Roman Campagna

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "G. du Jardijn" (additional text obscured by partial loss); verso, lower left, in pen and dark brown ink: "Karel Du Jardin/1625–1678"

Provenance

Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Aug. 6-7, 1914, to William F. E. Gurley (1870–1938) [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230B), verso, lower left, in black].

Exhibition history

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020.

Quick Overview

Artist: Guilliam Dujardin / Dutch, c. 1597-after 1647
Date: n.d.
Medium: Black chalk on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 25.8 × 40 cm (10 3/16 × 15 3/4 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: graphite
Place: Netherlands
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1922.1736

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.