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Classical Landscape with Ruins: 432

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Current Location: Gallery 15: Dutch Gallery

Titles

Classical Landscape with Ruins

Maker(s)

Painter: Breenbergh, Bartholomeus

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Notes

History note: Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, Regent of France; decended to his great grand-son, Louis Philippe Joseph, Duc d'Orleans, (Philippe Egalité); sold by him, with the rest of the Dutch and Flemish pictures to Thomas Moore Slade, 1792; exhibited, among them, London, April 1793 (32); probably bought there 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount

Dating

Circa 1628 - 1630

Note

Companion to picture No. 431.

School or Style

Dutch

People, subjects and objects depicted

Materials used in production

Oil paint

Components of the work

Support composed of copper
Copper Diameter 21.3 cm
Frame Height 34.5 cm Width 34.5 cm

Techniques used in production

Painting (image-making) : Oil on copper

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Identification numbers

Accession number: 432
Primary reference Number: 1151
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023 Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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