DUTCH SCHOOL 17thC - CITYSCAPE ROME - CIRCLE BREENBERGH - FINE INK DRAWING
Item History & Price
I'm selling this superb large size old master drawing, a Dutch sheet, dating back to the first half of the 17th century.
The drawing, executed in pen, ink and grey wash over a red chalk underdrawing on laid watermarked paper, depicts a cityscape of Rome. The artist depicted the famous "Ponte Rotto", crossing the river Tiber.
PONTE ROTTO : the "Pons Aemilius (Ponte Emilio), today called "Ponte Rotto" (broken bridge), is the oldest Roman stone bridge in Rome. Preceded b...y a wooden version, it was rebuilt in stone in the 2nd century BC. It once spanned the Tiber, connecting the Forum Boarium with Trastevere. A singel arch in mid-river is all that remains today.
Authorship : the drawing is from the Dutch School, attributed to Jacob van der Does or his near circle.
JACOB SIMONZ VAN DER DOES (Amsterdam 1623 - Sloten 1673) : Dutch painter, draughtsman. A pupil of Claes Moyaert in Amsterdam, Jacob Simonsz. van der Does also studied in Leiden before completing his training in Rome, where he spent the latter half of the 1640s and was given the Bentveughels nickname ‘Tamboer’ (‘Drummer Boy’). The biographer Arnold Houbraken writes of him that he spent several years in Rome "industriously painting and drawing" before returning to Holland, around 1650. Van der Does settled in The Hague, where he was involved in the foundation of the Confrerie Pictura in 1656, but was back in Amsterdam by 1663. His paintings were primarily of pastoral Italianate landscapes with sheep and cattle, and he also produced a handful of etchings, only one of which is signed and dated (1650). Houbraken records that the death of his wife in 1661 so traumatized the artist that he produced no paintings for four years. He eventually settled in the village of Sloten, outside Amsterdam, where he died at the age of fifty. Two of his sons, Simon and Jacob van der Does the Younger, were also artists.
The drawing, executed in pen, ink and grey wash over a red chalk underdrawing on laid watermarked paper, depicts a cityscape of Rome. The artist depicted the famous "Ponte Rotto", crossing the river Tiber.
PONTE ROTTO : the "Pons Aemilius (Ponte Emilio), today called "Ponte Rotto" (broken bridge), is the oldest Roman stone bridge in Rome. Preceded b...y a wooden version, it was rebuilt in stone in the 2nd century BC. It once spanned the Tiber, connecting the Forum Boarium with Trastevere. A singel arch in mid-river is all that remains today.
Authorship : the drawing is from the Dutch School, attributed to Jacob van der Does or his near circle.
JACOB SIMONZ VAN DER DOES (Amsterdam 1623 - Sloten 1673) : Dutch painter, draughtsman. A pupil of Claes Moyaert in Amsterdam, Jacob Simonsz. van der Does also studied in Leiden before completing his training in Rome, where he spent the latter half of the 1640s and was given the Bentveughels nickname ‘Tamboer’ (‘Drummer Boy’). The biographer Arnold Houbraken writes of him that he spent several years in Rome "industriously painting and drawing" before returning to Holland, around 1650. Van der Does settled in The Hague, where he was involved in the foundation of the Confrerie Pictura in 1656, but was back in Amsterdam by 1663. His paintings were primarily of pastoral Italianate landscapes with sheep and cattle, and he also produced a handful of etchings, only one of which is signed and dated (1650). Houbraken records that the death of his wife in 1661 so traumatized the artist that he produced no paintings for four years. He eventually settled in the village of Sloten, outside Amsterdam, where he died at the age of fifty. Two of his sons, Simon and Jacob van der Does the Younger, were also artists.
