View of the Tiber with Il Ponte Rotto

1697-1773 (Baroque)

73.3 cm 49.5 cm

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This pleasing view of the Tiber in Rome depicts peaceful fishermen near the Ponte Rotto, or Broken Bridge, which linked the center of Rome to its outskirts. Today only one arch of the bridge is intact. This type of pleasant landscape painting was greatly appreciated by 17th-ce...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 228; 1897 catalogue: no. 477, as Gaspar van Wittel]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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