The Barnet collection’s Claude Lorrain drawing of The valley of The Aniene, Near Tivoli, With The Ruins Of The Aqua Anio Novus Aqueduct, left, is a notable work for many reasons.
On one hand, it has not been seen in public since it was shown at the Metropolitan Museum in 1976-77. It emerged on the market just a couple of years earlier at an auction in Switzerland and was acquired by the Barnets from Colnaghi in 1975.