Claude Gellée, Le Lorrain (1600-1682)

細節

Claude Gellée, Le Lorrain (1600-1682)

A Pastoral Landscape

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash heightened with white (slightly oxidized) on light brown paper
264 x 405mm.

來源

The Duke of Sutherland.
L.G. Duke.
With P.& D. Colnaghi, 1950, no. 46.
Nigel-Warren, Q.C.; Christie's, 13 December 1984, lot 147 (£54,000).

出版

M. Röthlisberger, Claude Lorrain, the Drawings, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, p. 335, no. 899, illustrated.

展覽

Bologna, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, L'Ideale Classico nel Seicento in Italia e la Pittura, 1962, no. 213, illustrated.
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario and elsewhere, Italian Drawings from the Collection of Duke Roberto Ferretti, 1985-86, no. 47, illustrated.

拍品專文

The present drawing is dated to 1660-5 by Marcel Röthlisberger, although some elements of the composition and the motif of the figure and cattle are found in works of the 1630s and 1640s. It is comparable to studies in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and in the Louvre in Paris, Röthlisberger, op. cit., nos. 181 verso and 493. Röthlisberger comments that 'the open setting has here an increased grandeur' and argues for a later dating: 'An advanced date is also indicated by the handling, marked by a nervous and forceful pen stroke and an ample use of chalk. The same handling may be seen in other works of the early sixties. What is exceptional in this sheet is the freedom of its setting.' A smaller and modified copy of this drawing is at Besançon (no. D.1325).