View of the Abbey of Grottaferrata

View of the Abbey of Grottaferrata

RP-T-1975-52

draftsman (artist): Caspar van Wittel, Grottaferrata

1674 - 1736

brown ink, with grey wash, over traces of graphite

height 267 mm x width 411 mm

Purchased with the support of the I.Q. van Regteren Altena Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds

purchase 2018-11-29

Public domain

…; collection Boguslaw Jolles (?-1912), Vienna and Dresden (L. 381); …; sale, Dr Michael Berolzheimer (1866-1942, Untergrainau (Bavaria) and Mount Vernon (NY)), Munich (A. Weinmüller), 9 March 1939 sqq., no. 111, as Jan Frans van Bloemen, bought in;{Copy (Protokollkatalog) Weinmüller, according to the Restitutions Committee, report Feitenoverzicht inzake Berolzheimer RC. 1.166, version 24 April 2017, p. 5, 12, 13; NARA, M1946, Records Concerning the Central Collecting Points (‘Ardelia Hall Collection’) Munich Central Collecting Point, 1945-1951, Restitution Claim Records, Jewish Claims, Numbered: 0043-0044 (via Fold3), list ‘Nicht verkaufte Nummern a/Auktion Nr. 16’, no. 111.} ‘zu den Aufrufpreis’ to Weinmüller, Munich;{Declaration Adolf Weinmüller, according to the Restitutions Committee, report Feitenoverzicht inzake Berolzheimer RC. 1.166, version 24 April 2017, p. 5.} by whom sold, 1939;{Ibid.} …; collection Dr Einar Perman (1893-1976, Stockholm and Amsterdam), 1973;{A. Zwollo, _Hollandse en Vlaamse veduteschilders te Rome, 1675-1725_, Assen 1973, p. 154, fig. 190.} his sale, Amsterdam (Mak van Waay), 9 June 1975, no. 156, fl. 9,400, to the museum (L. 2228); restituted to the heirs of Dr Michael Berolzheimer (1866-1942, Untergrainau (Bavaria) and Mount Vernon (NY)), 2017;{Restitutions Committee, press release ‘Drawing in Rijksmuseum to go back to the heirs’, 26 September 2017.} from whom purchased by the museum, 2018

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