The Tiber with Castel Sant'Angelo

Former TitleBridge and Castle of St. Angelo, Rome

Artist Claude Joseph Vernet (French, 1714 - 1789)

Date18th century

MediumBrown ink with watercolor washes

DimensionsUnframed: 7 5/8 × 14 3/4 inches (19.37 × 37.47 cm)
Framed: 20 × 26 × 1 inches (50.8 × 66.04 × 2.54 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number33-1391

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Ruins of Rome, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, December 15, 1960-February 15, 1961; Detroit Institute of Arts, March 26-May 7, 1961, no. 135, as Bridge and Castle of Sant’ Angelo.

City Views, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 31-July 10, 1983, no. 26, as Rome, Bridge, and St. Angelo.

Provenance

Purchased from E. Parsons and Sons, Ltd., London, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

Published References

Robert Chester Smith, Ruins of Rome, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1960), unpaginated, as Bridge and Castle of Sant’ Angelo.

Ross E. Taggart and Roger B. Ward, City Views, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 12, 27, (repro.), as Rome, Bridge, and St. Angelo.

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