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View of Tivoli with the Bridge Over the Anio Waterfall
1620
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 43.6 × 32.2 cm (17 3/16 × 12 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2005.41
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Cornelis van Poelenburgh. View of Tivoli with the Bridge Over the Anio Waterfall. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
View of Tivoli with the Bridge Over the Anio Waterfall — Cornelis van Poelenburgh. 1620.
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on cream laid paper. Dimensions: 43.6 × 32.2 cm (17 3/16 × 12 11/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
During his stay in Rome, Cornelis van Poelenburch joined an artistic fraternity known as the Bentvueghels (birds of a feather). Among other things, these artists enjoyed day trips outside of the city. The ancient retreat of Tivoli was one of their favorite destinations. Here Poelenburch dramatized the rushing water of the waterfall below the central section of the city by alternating the blank paper (reserve) with dense applications of ink wash.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.