Landscape with Ruins

Artist Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Dutch, 1598-1657)

Place of OriginNetherlands

Dateabout 1630

DimensionsH: 12 1/8 in. (30.8 cm); W: 21 5/8 in. (54.9 cm)

MediumOil on wood panel

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1965.170

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 23

Published References"New Acessions, U.S.A.," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 67, no. 1165, February 1966, p. 51, repr. no. 198.

"Acessions of American and Canadian Museums," Art Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 2, 1966, p. 167.

Wittmann, Otto, "The Golden Age in the Netherlands," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, p. 475, repr. (col.) pl. XV.

Röthlisberger, M., Bartholomäus Breenbergh, Handzeichnungen, Berlin, 1969, in no. 96.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, pp. 29-30, pl. 96.

Roethlisberger, Marcel, Bartholomeus Breenbergh: the paintings, Berlin & New York, 1981, no. 131, p. 58, repr.

Duncan, Sally Anne, Otto Wittmann: Museum Man for All Seasons, Toledo, 2001, p. 22.

Exhibition HistoryLondon, Alfred Brod Gallery, 25th Exhibition of Old Master Paintings, Oct. - Nov. 1964, no. 8, repr. (col.).

Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Nederlandse 17e eeuwse, italianiserende landschapschilders, 1965, no. 27, fig. 28, repr. on cover.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Age of Rembrandt, 1966, no. 70, repr. p. 122.

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Mass. 1966.

California Palace or the Legion of the Honor, San Francisco, CA. 1966.

Poughkeepsie, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College; Sarasota, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Louisville, Speed Art Museum, Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, April 8, 2005 - March 15, 2006, no. 52, p. 213-214, repr. (col.).