View of Tivoli with the Bridge Over the Anio Waterfall

Prints and Drawings

1620

Cornelis van Poelenburgh
Dutch, 1594/95-1667

During his stay in Rome, Cornelis van Poelenburch joined an artistic fraternity known as the Bentvueghels (birds of a feather). Among other things, these artists enjoyed day trips outside of the city. The ancient retreat of Tivoli was one of their favorite destinations. Here Poelenburch dramatized the rushing water of the waterfall below the central section of the city by alternating the blank paper (reserve) with dense applications of ink wash.

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Artist: Cornelis van Poelenburgh
Title: View of Tivoli with the Bridge Over the Anio Waterfall
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1620
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on cream laid paper
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
Dimensions: 43.6 × 32.2 cm (17 3/16 × 12 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Helen Regenstein Endowment
Reference Number: 2005.41
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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).

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.

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.

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