Claude Gellée, Le Lorrain (1600-1682)

Details

Claude Gellée, Le Lorrain (1600-1682)

A View of Delphi

black chalk
134 x 195mm.

Provenance

Dr. Henry Wellesley
John Malcolm, and by descent to the Gathorne-Hardy family
The Hon. Robert Gathorne-Hardy; Sotheby's, 28 April 1976, lot 30, illustrated
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 Jan. 1985, lot 171, illustrated ($4000 to Woodner)

Literature

Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings in the Possession of the Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy, 1902, no. 590
M. Roethlisberger, Museum Studies I, Chicago, 1966, p. 88
M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, no. 683a, illustrated

Exhibited

London, P.& D. Colnaghi, Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, 1971, no. 36, fig. XXVIb; and thereafter at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
London, The British Museum, Claude Lorrain, 1977, ex-catalogue

Lot Essay

A preparatory study for the View of Delphi with a Procession of 1650 in the Doria-Pamphilj, Rome. Roethlisberger lists two other preparatory drawings in the Accademia, Venice and The Pierpont Morgan Library, Roethlisberger, op.cit., nos. 683 and 683b, both illustrated

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