Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00012140Eighteen Views of Rome: The Piazza Barberini (recto); Tracing of a Fountain from recto and Sketches of Two Faces (verso)
by Lievin Cruyl
Also known as: Piazza Barberini
Inscriptions
recto: signed, lower left, in brown ink: [artist monogram: LC] RVYL delin: Romæ / mense Febr. 1665: ; by artist, upper center, in brown ink: Prospetto della Piazza di Sforsa , hoggi Piazza Barberina ; by artist, throughout composition, in brown ink: [the letters A-F] ; by artist, lower left, in brown ink: A. Palatium Eccel.mi [mi in superscript] Principis Barberini. B. Fons ab Urbano VIII ex inventione / Equitis Jois Laurentij Barberini extructus. C. Ecclia: et Conventus Fratrum / S. Nicolai ordinis Eremitarum S. Augustini reformatorum. D. Ecclia S. / Susannæ. F. Ecclia S. Caroli ad quatuor Fontes in Monte Quirinale. / F. Basilica S. Mariæ Maioris in Monte Esquilino. ; lower center, in graphite: [illegible, erased] verso: upper left, in brown ink: [illegible, masked] ; upper left, in graphite: [illegible] ; ON STRIPS OF PAPER MOUNTED TO PERIMETER, lower right, in graphite: A20980 ; lower right, in graphite: E. 11
Exhibition history
Views of Rome. American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy (organizer) (October 13-November 20, 1989).
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 with graphite; framing lines in brown ink and graphite (along bottom edge); sketch unrelated to main composition in graphite (upper right)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 38.3 x 49.7 cm (15 1/16 x 19 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Accession no.
- 1943.265
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