Caspar Van Wittel's drawings

Work, Capricci and fantasy

Besides all his paintings, Caspar Van Wittel made quite a bit of drawings in his career, most of the time a nice rendering of a situation, aside from the 'professional work' he was doing as a painter.

And some capricci too, invented situations, always in the reproduction of ambiances, situations, places.
Not work but a progression of it.

He also made quite a bit of 'panorama' drawings, but they will be presented in a different section, as a few Van Wittel scholars connect a certain way of organizing the final image using the Camera Obscura.

Caspar van Wittel: [1674-1736] - Houses on a stream by a small cascade, a church and houses on a low hill behind, trees on a rocky mound at right - Drawing - Pen and brown ink, with grey wash, over traces of black chalk - British Museum, London

Caspar van Wittel: [1680-85] - View of part of Frascati - Drawing - Sanguine, pen, ink, gray watercolour - National Central Library of Rome

Caspar van Wittel: [1600-1702] - Imaginary view - Drawing - Pen, ink, gray watercolor - National Central Library of Rome

Caspar van Wittel: [1700-10] - Imaginary view - Drawing - Pen, ink, gray and brown watercolor - National Central Library of Rome

Caspar van Wittel: View of the Abbey of Grottaferrata - Drawing - Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray ink, over traces of graphite - Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Caspar van Wittel: [after 1693] - View of the Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati - Tempera - Private collection

Caspar van Wittel: [1694] - View of Porta Galliera in Bologna - Drawing - Pen, ink, gray watercolour - National Central Library of Rome

Caspar van Wittel: [1700-10] - Landscape with ford - Drawing - Pen, ink and gray watercolor - National Central Library of Rome

Caspar van Wittel: [1674-1736] - The Arch of Titus in Rome - Drawing - Pen and brown ink, with watercolour and bodycolour - British Museum, London

Caspar van Wittel: [1700] - View of Rome - Tempera on parchment - Palazzo Pitti, Firenze

Caspar van Wittel: [1674-1736] - An Italianate landscape with a bridge - buildings on hills beyond at right, figures beneath trees in the foreground - Drawing - Pen and brown ink, with grey wash and watercolour, over black chalk - British Museum, London

Caspar van Wittel: Church and Houses along a River - Drawing - Pen and grey ink, grey wash, touches of pen and brown ink - Yale University Art Gallery

Caspar van Wittel: [1715-19] - View of Marino from Villa Colonna - Drawing - Pen, ink, pencil, gray and brown watercolour - National Central Library of Rome

Caspar van Wittel: River View in Italy - Drawing - Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white over traces of black chalk - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Caspar van Wittel: [1700-05] - View of a bridge over a river with a city on the opposite bank - Drawing - Pen, ink and gray watercolor - National Central Library of Rome

Caspar van Wittel: A River Landscape - Drawing - Pen and brown ink and grey and red wash

Caspar van Wittel: View of the Ponte Molle in Rome - Drawing - Pen in brown, brush in watercolor in colors - Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Caspar van Wittel: Italian landscape with a city on a hill - Drawing - Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and blue ink, over traces of red chalk - frame lines in brown ink (largely cut off) and gold (left edge) - Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Caspar van Wittel: View of the Riviera di Chiaia, Naples - Bodycolor on panel

Caspar van Wittel: Italianate River Landscape with an Inn - Drawing - Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk - traces of framing lines in pen and brown ink - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Caspar van Wittel: [1700-10] - View of a gulf from a hill -recto - Drawing - Pen, ink and gray watercolor - National Central Library of Rome

Caspar van Wittel: [1685] - View of Rome with the Castel Sant'Angelo - Tempera on parchment - Palazzo Pitti, Firenze

Caspar van Wittel: Hunter with Dog, Other Figures in Landscape with Villa, Canal, Pyramid - Drawing - Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on brown wove paper - Art Institute Chicago