Group of Trees in the Roman Campagna

Group of Trees in the Roman Campagna

RP-T-1960-209(R)

draftsman (artist): Caspar van Wittel

1674 - 1736

pen and brown ink

height 565 mm x width 433 mm

purchase 1960

Public domain

…; collection Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (1716-1799), Rome;{G. Briganti, _Gaspar van Wittel e l’origine della veduta settecentesca_, Rome 1966, no. D7.} by whom bequeathed to the Accademia di S. Luca, Rome (later dispersed), 1799; from which acquired _en bloc_ with all other drawings dispersed from the academy’s collection by Vincenzo Pacetti (1746-1820), Rome, 1801;{K. Cassirer, ‘Die Handzeichnungen Pacetti’, _Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen_, XLIII (1922), pp. 63-69; and G. Briganti, _Gaspar van Wittel e l’origine della veduta settecentesca_, Rome 1966, no. D7.} his son, Michelangelo Pacetti (1793-after 1855), Rome and Naples; ? by whom sold with group of forty drawings by or attributed to the artist to Gustav Waagen (1794-1868) for the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (disappeared during World War II); …; to the dealer Paul Fatio (L. 3701); his sale, Geneva (N. Rauch), 13 June 1960 sqq., no. 409, CHF 600, to the dealer B. Houthakker;{Copy RMA.} from whom, fl. 800, to the museum (L. 2228), 1960

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