Bartholomeus Breenbergh

Prof. Dr. Einar Perman, Stockholm,
his sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 9 June 1975, lot 139, to Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York;
his exhibition, July 1991: Bartholomeus Breenbergh, catalogued by M. Roethlisberger, no. 30, reproduced

M. Roethlisberger, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, The Paintings, Berlin 1981, p. 70, cat. no. 171, reproduced

Sold in attractive wooden reproduction frame. There is some slight discolouration towards the edges of the sheet, and a little surface dirt. Some small, isolated spot stains but otherwise condition is fine.
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Roethlisberger dates this drawing to Breenbergh's later Roman period, circa 1625-30, on account of the soft use of wash and the steep perspective.  He notes that although the Basilica of Constantine appears in a number of the artist's paintings and drawings, this sheet is unusual in that the monument is viewed from the opposite direction to that which it is normally seen.¹

1. See Roethlisberger, 1991, loc.cit.