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BARTHOLOMEUS BREENBERGH (DUTCH 1598-1657) WALLS OF A CITY, POSSIBLY LATINUMPen and brown ink, with brown and grey wash over black chalkLater inscribed (lower right)8 x 14.5cm (3 x 5½ in.)Drawn circa 1626 - 1629.Provenance:The Collection of The Rt. Hon. F Leverton HarrisHis Sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 May 1928, lot 18 Sale, Kunstveilingen Mak Van Waay B.V, Amsterdam, 11 June 1975, lot 55, where purchased by Richard L. FeigenLiterature:M. Roethlisberger, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Handzeichnungen, Berlin, 1969, under no. 61M. Roethlisberger, Bartholomeus Breenbergh: The Paintings, 1981, no. 101, p.51 (ill., fig. 101)Exhibited:New York, Richard L. Feigen & Co, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, cat. by M. Roethlisberger, 18 September - 31 October 1991, no.29 (ill) travelled toLondon, 18 November - 20 December 1991, no. 29The number at the upper right identifies this almost pure wash drawing as part of Breenbergh's small sketchbook, the dated sheets from which range from 1626 to 1629, during the artist's later years in Rome. Roethlisberger has pointed out that this scene was probably sketched from life just outside an unidentified town in Latinum. Interestingly, this motif does not recur in any known painting by Breenbergh and is his only known architectural study viewed parallel to the picture plane rather than from a sharp diagonal.