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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1962.41
People
Gaspar van Wittel (called Vanvitelli), Dutch (Amersfort, Netherlands 1652 - 1736 Rome, Italy)
Title
Boar Hunt along the Banks of the Tiber at Fiano
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th-18th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296985

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown and black ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on brown prepared paper
Dimensions
25.5 × 41.2 cm (10 1/16 × 16 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite, French: Chasseur au / bord du Tibre / Fiano Monte Soratte
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink, stamp: [reverse P and F intertwined, Paul Fatio]
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Bartolmeo Cavaceppi, Rome(?), sold; to Vincenzo Pacetti, Castel Bolognese, 1801, sold; to Paul Fatio (with his mark, not in Lugt). [Nicholas Rauch, Geneva, 13-15 June, 1960, lot 386], sold; possibly to [Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York], sold; to Charles and Marian H. Phinney, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960; Bequest of Marian H. Phinney, 1962.41

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Marian H. Phinney
Accession Year
1962
Object Number
1962.41
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Giuliano Briganti, Gaspar Van Wittel e l'origine della veduta settecentesca, Ugo Bozzi Editore (Bozzi, 1966), cat. no. 18d, p. 273
  • Walter Vitzthum, "Gaspar van Wittel e l'origine della veduta settecentesca" [review], The Burlington Magazine (May 1967), vol. 109, no. 770, pp. 317-8, p. 317
  • Annie Zwollo, Hollandse en Vlaamse veduteschilders te Rome 1675-1725, Van Gorcum & Company (Assen, 1973), p. 122, note 243
  • Giuliano Briganti, Gaspar van Wittel, Electa (Milan, Italy, 1996), cat. no. D126, p. 331, repr. p. 332

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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