Collection Online as of July 4, 2022

Ponte San Rocco at Tivoli

first half 1600s

attributed to Willem van Niewlandt

(Flemish, 1584–1635/6)

Flanders, 17th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and blue and brown wash over traces of black chalk; framing lines in brown ink

Support: Cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 38.1 x 27.6 cm (15 x 10 7/8 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1954.560

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

falsely signed, lower left, in brown ink: Brueghel ; VERSO, upper left, in graphite: 100 [sideways] ; lower left, in graphite: 13 [circled] ; lower center, in graphite: Pieter Brueghel d. Ä ; lower right, in graphite: [O + C 25?] [diagonally] ; lower right, in graphite: 15/15 [erased] ; lower right, in graphite: [illegible] 2000.-

Provenance

[Colnaghi, London](according to letter from Lugt in file); [sale: Stuttgart, H. G. Gutekunst, May 13-14, p. 11, no. 83, repr., as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, not sold]; [Colnaghi, London]; purchased on 17 May, 1926, by Frits Lugt, Maartensdijk (Lugt 1028, not stamped, letter from Lugt in departmental file). Anton Schmid, Vienna (Lugt 2330b, lower right, in black ink). [Mathias Komor, New York]

Exhibition history

Landscape. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 9-April 22, 1962).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

Northern Landscape Traditions: 16th and 17th Century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10-December 31, 1989).

Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).