Live Auction 3054The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part IV
Dutch School, 17th Century
Lot 269

Dutch School, 17th Century

The Monastery of Santa Balbina on the Aventine, with the Baths of Caracalla to the left (recto); The Temple of Venus (verso)

Closed13 May 2015

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Dutch School, 17th Century
The Monastery of Santa Balbina on the Aventine, with the Baths of Caracalla to the left (recto); The Temple of Venus (verso)
black chalk, brown wash, traces of chalk framing lines, watermark anchor in a circle with a star
18.2 x 39.4 cm.

Unidentified collector's mark C.B. (L. 495).
with J.H.J. Mellaart, London; from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena in April 1927 for 40 guilders (Inventory book: '309. t. Callot De Aventijn').

Specialist note

For a drawing formerly attributed to Watteau which seems to copy the central part of this drawing, see P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat op. cit..