Collection Online as of March 28, 2023

(Flemish, 1568–1625)

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash, with blue and green watercolor and red chalk wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink

Support: Cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 20.5 x 14.8 cm (8 1/16 x 5 13/16 in.)

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1979.26

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

upper center, in brown ink: Spa. ; lower center, in brown ink: Brueghel ; VERSO, center, in brown ink: 110 ; center right, in graphite: 95 ; center right, in graphite: 8 [circled]

Provenance

[P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd.]

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. Reproduced: cat. no. 24, p. 66; Mentioned: p. 60 www.jstor.org

George, Philippe. Art et Patrimoine en Wallonie des Origines à 1789: Essai de Synthèse à la Lumière des Collections Américaines et Européennes. Namur: Institut du Patrimoine Wallon, 2017. Reproduced; p. 288, fig. 528

Pironet, Louis, and Jan Bruegel. Spa et Brueghel de Velours: l'album du voyage a Spa de Jan Brueghel dit de Velours, contenant trois dessins du ma itre, inedits en la ville d'eaux. Bruxelles: Bibliotheque Royale, 1987, pp. 37-38. mentioned p. 37, reproduced p. 38

Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).

Brush Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 3-May 10, 1981).

Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).

The Cleveland Museum of Art

A View of Spa

Jan Brueghel

Location

Inscription