- Object numberCD241
- TitleLandscape with an old aquaduct
- Object
- CreatorNicolas Vleughels (Artist)
- Description: Vleughels drew this view of a courtyard in the Campo Vaccino in the second year after he had assumed the directorship of the Academie de France in Rome. He was a great advocate of drawing directly from nature and often led his 'pensionnaires' on sketching exhibitions into the Roman campagna. Surprisingly, though, very few of his own landscape drawings are known today. Only two are listed as certainly by him in the recent catalogue raisonne by Bernard Hercenberg: the Plymouth sheet and one other (The Water Gate, Hercenberg no. 324), both of which bear old attributions to Vleughels. M. Pierre Rosenberg, op. cit., has suggested, however, that several different drawings, some of which have been previously given in turn to Philippe Mercier and Antoine Watteau are in fact by Vleughels. Some of these bear inscriptions similar to that on the present study, and are drawn in similar unusual combination of media, circumstances which would seem to support at least some of the new attributions. (text from 1979 catalogue) (, )
- Production date, 1725
- Production period18th century
- Material
- Dimensions
- 141 mm
- 190 mm
- Inscription
Inscription, pen and brown ink: {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang2057{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Segoe UI;}} \viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs18 1726/septembr[e]\par }
Inscription, on back of old mount, : {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang2057{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Segoe UI;}} \viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs18 Originale di Monsieur Vleugle Direttore dell'Accada Reale di/Francia in Roma, e quivi fatto l'Anno 1725\par }
Inscription, pencil: {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang2057{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Segoe UI;}} \viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs18 Campo Vacino\par } Interpretation: inscription
: {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang2057{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Segoe UI;}} \viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs18 C. R.\par } (Description: collector's mark)
- Associations
Named Collection: Cottonian Collection
