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Dominique Barrière . France. 1647. pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk, traced with stylus for transfer. Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III. 1811.136.

Marks/Inscriptions

• "VILLA / ALDOBRAN / DINA / TVSCVLANA / sine varij / . . . " (inscription, on tablet in composition, graphite)
• "The Villa Aldobrandina, belonging to the Pamfili family, is near the church of St. Dominico on Monte Quirnale" (inscription, mount, graphite)

Provenance

• James Bowdoin III (Collector, Boston) -1811
• Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811-

Exhibition History

• Prints/Drawings & Drawings/Prints, 1500-1800. Bowdoin College Museum of Art (8/4/2009, 9/20/2009)
• Drawing on Basics. Bowdoin College (10/14/1993, 12/19/1993)
• From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century. Cleveland Museum of Art (12/13/1989, 6/17/1990)
• Images of Women in 17th Century Prints and Drawings. Bowdoin College (10/3/1989, 11/5/1989)
• Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College. (5/17/1985, 6/29/1986)

Bibliography

Type: catalogue
Author: Henry Johnson
Document Title: Catalogue of the Bowdoin College Art Collections
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 96
Remarks: (as Unknown)
Section Title: Pt. I, The Bowdoin Drawings
Date: 1885

Type: catalogue
Author: Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Document Title: Bowdoin Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Building
Edition: 4th
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 96
Remarks: (as Unknown)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . .
Date: 1930

Type: exhibition catalogue
Author: David P. Becker
Document Title: Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Location: pp. 186-187
Reference: no. 87 (illus.)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Date: 1985

Type: exhibition catalogue
Author: Hilliard T. Goldfarb
Document Title: From Fontainebleau to the Louvre
Publ. Place: Cleveland
Location: p. 89
Reference: no. 42
Publisher: Cleveland Museum of Art
Section Title: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century
Date: 1989