Gezicht op de villa Mecenate bij Tivoli

226 View of the so-called Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli

Black and white chalk on grey tinted paper.
556 x 412 mm.
Inscribed by the artist (?), upper left: een gezigt van Tivoli op villa mecaenas (upside down; pen and grey ink).
Inscribed on the verso, lower left: Gezigt van Tivoli / op de Villa van Mecaenas / Verk v. G. Muller 1827 / de 2 stuks f G U (pencil).
PROVENANCE: G. Muller; his sale, Amsterdam, 2 April 1827 (Lugt 11399), part 2, no. XXX CHECK RKD; P.M. Kesler or C. Apostool, their sale, Amsterdam, 13 May 1844 (Lugt 17385), no. G 45, bought by Michaëlis for the Museum, together with No. 227 (f 2,50).
Inv. 1854: W2 56 ‘gezigt van Tivoli op de Villa de Mecenas’ or 57 ‘dito’; inv. 1864: Y 61 ‘De waterval van Tivoli’ or 62 ‘dito’ (as by ‘Lodewyk Johannes Kleijn’).
INV. NO.: Z 11.
EXHIBITIONS: Haarlem/Rome 1984, no. 57, repr.; ’s-Hertogenbosch 1996, fig. 72.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Scholten 1904, p. 509; Van Regteren Altena 1964, p. 104, under no. 41; Van Tuyll 1984, p. 14, fig. 20.

Acquired together with No. 227.