TOEPUT, Lodewijk
(b. ca. 1550, Antwerpen, d. ca. 1605, Treviso)

View of the Colosseum

1581
Pen, brown ink, grey and blue wash, 347 x 255 mm
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Despite having left his homeland while still very young, he remained closely linked to Netherlandish tradition and developed close cooperative ties with his Netherlandish colleagues active in Italy. He achieved a successful synthesis of Flemish and Venetian landscape art in his oeuvre.