ADRIAEN VAN EEMONT | View of the Lucano Bridge crossing the Anio River, with the Tomb of the Plautii

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 7 March 1958, lot 151 (as Jan Asselijn), for 280 Guineas to Agnew;

With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, by 1958 (inv. no. 18805; as Jan Asselijn);

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 9 December 1988, lot 44 (as Jan Asselijn);

D. Evelyn L. Joll, London, 1988;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 30 October 1997, lot 277, where acquired.

The SØR Rusche Collection has been exhibited extensively over the last two decades. Please click here for further information.

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 3, Landschaften und Seestücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2001, pp. 68-71, cat. no. 12, reproduced in colour.

This view is little changed today - the elegant form of the Ponte Lucano and the remains of the circular Tomb of the Plautii have withstood traffic between Rome and Tivoli since the 1st century BC. Adriaen van Eemont studied under Philips Wouwerman and travelled with Frederik de Moucheron to Lyon, en route to Italy. Van Eemont was influenced by other Dutch Italianate painters, such as Jan Both and Jan Asselijn, for whose work this painting was previously mistaken.