An Ox lying down

Details

Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain (1600-1682)
An Ox lying down
pen and brown ink, in a Louis XIII carved and gilded frame
83 x 102 mm.

Provenance

Possibly Queen Christina of Sweden.
Prince Livio Odescalchi and by descent.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 20 November 1957, part of lot 67.
With M. Knoedler & Co., The Artist and the Animal, 1968, no. 34, illustrated.

Literature

M. Röthlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, pp. 140-1, no. 235, illustrated.

Exhibited

New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, Drawings from the Collection of Lore and Rudolf Heinemann, 1973, no. 14, illustrated.

Lot Essay

The drawing was part of a group of approximately eighty sheets of animal studies, all small in size and formerly belonging to the 'Animal Album', sold in 1957, Röthlisberger, op. cit., pp. 57-9. The album was compiled by Claude between 1635 and 1645 as a stock of models which he used in his paintings.
A drawing from this album was sold at Christie's, South Kensington, 16 April 1997, lot 127, illustrated.

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