View of Tivoli with the Bridge Over the Anio Waterfall

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower center, in pen and brown ink: "te tievele 1620"; verso, center, in graphite: "22" (in a circle); illegible inscriptions verso, in pen and dark brown ink

Provenance

Charles Gasc (1822–after 1869), Spain and Paris [stamp (Lugt 543), recto, lower right, in red]. Prof. Einar Perman (1893–1976), Stockholm, by 1962 [Laren 1962]; by descent to his son, Dr. Einar Perman; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2005.

Exhibition history

Laren, Singer Museum, Oude Tekeningen uit de Nederlanden: Verzameling Prof. E. Perman, Stockholm, June 9–Sept. 16, 1962, p. 10, cat. 22, pl. 32 (as Breenbergh). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 240-41, 243 (ill.), 307, cat. 89, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Publications

Marcel Roethlisberger, Bartholomäus Breenbergh Handzeichnungen (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1969), p. 20, no. 1, as Poelenburch? (ill.). Alan Chong, “The Drawings of Cornelis van Poelenburch,” Master Drawings 25:1 (Spring 1987), p. 25, no. 6 (ill.). Nicolette Sluijter-Seiffert, Cornelis van Poelenburch, 1694/5–1667: The Paintings, Oculi: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, Vol. 15, trans. Jennifer M. Milian and Katy Kist (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016), p. 365, under no. 226 (listed as Formerly Stockholm, E. Perman coll).

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

Quick Overview

Artist: Cornelis van Poelenburgh / Dutch, 1594/95-1667
Date: 1620
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 43.6 × 32.2 cm (17 3/16 × 12 11/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pen and ink drawings
Place: Netherlands
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Helen Regenstein Endowment
Accession no.: 2005.41

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