Lot Essay
A copy after a damaged drawing by Claude in the British Museum.
Apollo playing to the Muses on Parnassus
Details
Follower of Claude Gellée, le Lorrain
Apollo playing to the Muses on Parnassus
with inscription 'Claudio Fec. 1674 Roma'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash
178 x 248 mm.
Apollo playing to the Muses on Parnassus
with inscription 'Claudio Fec. 1674 Roma'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash
178 x 248 mm.
Provenance
Sir Charles Robinson.
Henry Oppenheimer; Christie's, 14 July 1936, lot 420 (40gns. to Agnew's).
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, 18 February 1953, lot 59.
Henry Oppenheimer; Christie's, 14 July 1936, lot 420 (40gns. to Agnew's).
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, 18 February 1953, lot 59.
Literature
M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Paintings, New Haven, 1961, p. 453, note 7.
M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, under no. 1073.
M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, under no. 1073.
Exhibited
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Collectors, 1971.