
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011905Eighteen Views of Rome: The Quattro Fontane Looking Toward Monte Cavallo
by Lievin Cruyl
Also known as: The Four Fountains Looking Toward Monte Cavallo
Inscriptions
signed, lower left, in brown ink: [artist's monogram: LC] RVYL delin: Romæ / mense Aprili 1665. ; by artist, upper center, in brown ink: Prospetto primo delle 4. Fontane Verso Monte Cavallo, / e SS. Trinita di Monti ; by artist, throughout composition, in brown ink: [the letters A-R] ; by artist, across bottom, in brown ink: A. Fontes. B. Conventus S. Caroli. C. Novitiatus Soc. Jesv. D. Mons Quirnalis. E. Palatium Pontificium cum Viridario in Monte Quirinali. F. Temp. S. Agnetis in Foso Agonali. / G. Columna Antonina. H. Temp. S. Augustini. I. Basilica S. Petri. K. Castrum. S. Angeli. L. Temp. S. Andreæ delle Fratte. M. Collegium Grecorum. N. Temp. SS. Trinitatis / Montium. O. Palatium Mag[ni] Ducis Etruriæ. P. Via Gregoriana. Q. Conventus Minoritariúm S. Isidori. R. Horologium Conventus Cappúcinorum. S. Palatium cum Virida[r]io / [portion missing] Palestrinæ[crossed out] Praenestini [in red chalk] Prænestini. [in brown ink, rewitten over inscription in red chalk] ; ON STRIPS OF PAPER MOUNTED TO VERSO, bottom center, in graphite: A20983 ; lower right, in graphite: E. 20 ; ON PIECE OF PAPER APPLIED TO VERSO AS A REPAIR, lower right, in graphite: [four lines of illegible inscription] [upside down]
Exhibition history
Views of Rome. American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy (organizer) (October 13-November 20, 1989). Francesco Borromini. The Development of an Architectural Idiom. Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland (organizer) (September 5-November 14, 1999).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720)
- Date
- 1665
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 38.7 x 48.7 cm (15 1/4 x 19 3/16 in.); Framed: 61.7 x 76.8 x 2.6 cm (24 5/16 x 30 1/4 x 1 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Accession no.
- 1943.273
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