Details
Circle of CLAUDE GELLÉE, called CLAUDE LORRAIN (1600-1682)
A Seaport at Sunrise with Fishermen pulling in their Nets, hoisting a Sail and in Rowboats, before a classical Ruin
oil on canvas
Provenance
Dr. Thomas Newton, Bishop of Bristol (died 1782)
Sir Philip John Miles, Leigh Court, Bristol, by 1777; his sale, Christie's, London, June 28, 1838 (unsold)
James E. Scripps, by whom donated to the museum in 1889
Literature
J. Boydell, Liber Veritatis; or A Collection of Prints after the Original Designs of Claude Le Lorrain; In the Collection of His Grace The Duke of Devonshire Executed by Richard Earlom, 1777, I
R J. Young, Catalogue of the Pictures at Leigh Court, 1822, p. 11, no. 16
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, 1837, VIII, pp. 194-5, no. 2
G. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 1854, III, p. 180
M. Pattison, Claude Gellée Le Lorrain, Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre, 1884, p. 207, no. 2
O.J. Dullea, Claude Gellee Le Lorrain, 1887, pp. 109, 125
W. Heil, Catalogue of Paintings, 1930, no. 35
E.P. Richardson, Catalogue of Paintings, 1944, p. 27, no. 35
M. Rothlisberger, Claude Lorrain, 1961, I, p. 99; II, fig. 376
Exhibited
Detroit, Detroit Museum of Arts, First Annual Exhibiiton, May 29, 1886, p. 8, no. 32
Detroit, Detroit Museum of Arts, Second Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, Etc., 1889, p. 8, no. 16
Detroit, Detroit Museum of Arts, The Scripps Collection of Old Masters, 1889, p. 40, no. 42, as Claude Gelee
Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Of Ships and the Sea, Nov. 1-Dec. 1, 1963, no. 7
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections, Jan. 29-Nov. 28, 1982, p. 358, no. 10, illustrated
Engraved
John Young (1775-1822)
