European Drawings - 1, Catalogue of the Collections

j8 View of TivolV

View of Tivoli'

Black chalk and brown and reddish brown wash (recto);
pen and ink (verso); H: 21.3 cm (8^3 /s in.); W: 31 cm
(i2^3 /i6in.)
83.06.35 7 (SEE PLATE 6)
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: (Recto) at bottom left, in-
scribed Bril in brown ink by a later hand; at bottom right,
inscribed ig in brown ink; (verso) inscribed Claud L...
in red chalk.
PROVENANCE: Sixth earl of Harewood (Viscount Las-
celles), Harewood House (sale, Christie's, London, June
25 , 1968, lot 73); private collection, New Jersey.
EXHIBITIONS: Le pay sage frangais de Poussin a Corot, Petit
Palais, Paris, May-June 1925, no. 460 (catalogue edited
by L. Hourticq). Fifth Loan Exhibition, Magnasco Soci-
ety, London, 1928, no. 37.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: T. Borenius, "Old Master Drawings in
the Collection of Viscount Lascelles," Apollo i (1925), p.
193 ; T. Borenius, Catalogue of the Harewood House (Lon-
don, 1936), pp. 51-52, no. 89; M. Roethlisberger, Claude
Lonain: The Drawings (Berkeley, 1968), pp. 63, 189, no.

431 -

THESE ARE TWO OF MORE THAN THIRTY VIEWS OF Ti

voli and the surrounding countryside by Claude and wa

very possibly once part of the "Tivoli Book" recon

structed by Roethlisberger (1968, pp. 62-63). As wa

characteristic of the artist, interest is focused on the ric

landscape around Tivoli rather than on the town and it

architecture, which are seen to the right on the recto. Th

latter is closest in medium and technique to the view o

Tivoli in the British Museum, London (inv. 00.6-77

Roethlisberger 1968, no. 430), as was first noted by Bor

enius (1925, p. 193). The varied application of brown an

reddish-brown wash provides a subtle range of tona

variations. The verso contains a pen-and-ink study of th

same view, perhaps made first in order to provide a basi

compositional outline for the principle drawing on th

recto. The existence of the verso has not been note

previously.

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