The Pantheon, Rome
Framed: 16 3/4 × 24 1/4 × 1 1/4 inches (42.55 × 61.6 × 3.18 cm)
The Ruins of Rome, University of Pennsylvania Art Museum, Philadelphia, December 15, 1960-February 15, 1961, no. 34, as The Pantheon.
City Views, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 31-July 10, 1983, no. 14, as Rome, Pantheon.
Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, MO, September 22-December 3, 1989, unnumbered.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 32, as The Pantheon, Rome.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as The Pantheon, Rome.
An Italian Panorama: The Romance of Ruins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 19, 2017-January 14, 2018, no cat., as The Pantheon, Rome.
Pen and brown ink with gray wash over black and red chalks The artist was a priest from the city of Ghent, today in Belgium, and worked in Rome in the mid-1660s. This view shows the Pantheon and its square much as they appear today. The meticulous detail suggests this drawing may have been made in preparation for an engraving.
Albert Figdor (1843-1927), Vienna, by 1927;
With Jean-Pierre Durand (1924-1986), Geneva, Switzerland, by September 7, 1950 [1];
Purchased from Durand by Knoedler Galleries, New York, stock no. WCA1255, on joint account with Pinakos, Inc., as by Canaletto, September 7, 1950-November, 1950 [2];
Purchased from Knoedler Galleries and Pinakos by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1950.
NOTES:
[1] Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Knoedler Gallery Records, Watercolor Stock Book 5, page 138.
[2] Ibid., Sales Book 16, page 289.
Robert Chester Smith, The Ruins of Rome, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Art Museum, 1960), unpaginated, as The Pantheon.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 176, (repro.), as Pantheon, Rome.
Ross E. Taggart and Roger Ward, City Views, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 3, 10, 24, (repro.), as Rome, Pantheon.
Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 11, 38, (repro.), as The Pantheon, Rome.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 171, (repro.), as The Pantheon, Rome.
Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 115-16, (repro.), as The Pantheon, Rome.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 80-81, (repro.), as The Pantheon, Rome.
