The City Walls of Utrecht by the "Plompetoren"

Inscriptions

Signed and dated recto, lower left, in pen and black ink: "Paul: v: Liender fac: 1763"; inscribed verso, lower center, in pen and brown ink: "de Plompetooren te Utrecht, N. 55"

Provenance

Pieter Langerhuizen Lzn., (1839–1918), Crainloo, Holland [stamp (Lugt 2095), verso, lower left, in blue]; sold, Frederick Muller, Amsterdam, April 29–May 1, 1919, lot 489. Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 9, 1996, lot 187, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, Mass.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, Gifts of a Lifetime: 49 Old Masters Drawings from the Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection, Dec. 11,1998–Mar. 28,1999, checklist 35. Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 51, cat. 24 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, Mar. 15–June 15, 2014. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 264, 267 (ill.), 305, 333, (ill.), cat. 110, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Quick Overview

Artist: Paulus van Liender / Dutch, 1731-1797
Date: 1763
Medium: Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 21.4 × 32.5 cm (8 7/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pen and ink drawings
Place: Netherlands
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 2013.971

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