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Master of the Blue Landscapes (active mid 17th Century)
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Master of the Blue Landscapes (active mid 17th Century)

An imaginary view of Rome with the Gesù and Trajan's Column

Details
Master of the Blue Landscapes (active mid 17th Century)
An imaginary view of Rome with the Gesù and Trajan's Column
with number '17'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on blue paper
3½ x 7½ in. (88 x 190 mm.)
Provenance
Reichsgraf Moriz von Fries (L. 2903).
Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445).
W. Esdaile (L. 2617), with his date '1836'.
Dr. H. Wellesley; Sotheby's, 24 June 1866, lot 498.
R. Johnson (L. 2216).
Purchased from Agnew's, April 1939 (£20).
Literature
M. Roethlisberger, 'Drawings around Claude. Part one: A group of Grimaldesque Drawings', Master Drawings, III, 1965, p. 379, no. 46.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, Landscape in French Art, 1950, no. 377 (as Claude).
London, Royal Academy, The Paul Oppé Collection, 1958, no. 332 (as Claude).
Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, Exhibition of Works from the Paul Oppé Collection, 1961, no. 117 (as Claude).
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Lot Essay

This and the following lot are from a group of drawings on blue paper that were traditionally identified as Claude. In 1965 Marcel Roethlisberger successfully demonstrated that they were all by another unknown hand, from the colour notes probably a Frenchman working in Rome in about 1650.

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