Claude Gellée, Le Lorrain* (1600-1682)

A Landscape with Trees and Hunters

Details

Claude Gellée, Le Lorrain* (1600-1682)
A Landscape with Trees and Hunters
signed 'CLAUDIO^.I^.V^.F.' (recto), with inscription 'Claudio Lorrense' and number '12' (verso) and 'Claudio Lorenese' on the mount
pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, watermark encircled device
14 3/8 x 10 1/8 in. (366 x 257 mm.)

Provenance

A. Grahl (L. 1199); C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 28 November 1912, lot 126 (350 Marks).
Schoeller, Vienna; C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 11 November 1921, lot 8, illustrated (4,000 Marks to Strölin).
A. Strölin.

Literature

M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain. The Drawings, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, no. 1020, illustrated.

Engraved

Lot Essay

Professor Marcel Roethlisberger, noting the minute handling of the pen in dots, dates the drawing to circa 1670. The three figures on the verso are found throughout Claude's works but the closest parallel can be found in the three figures in the foreground of Parnassus with Minerva visting the Muses in Jacksonville, Florida, M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain, The Paintings, New Haven, 1961, no. LV195, figs. 315-6. Claude's drawing of the picture in The Liber Veritatis is dated 1680 although two of the three further drawings related to this composition are dated 1676, M. Roethlisberger, op. cit., nos. 1121-4, illustrated.