A shepherd playing the flute, a shepherdess and two goats on rocks (recto); A nude male torso seen from behind (verso)

細節

Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain (Chamagne, Lorraine ?1604-1682 Rome)
A shepherd playing the flute, a shepherdess and two goats on rocks (recto); A nude male torso seen from behind (verso)
black chalk, grey wash (recto); red chalk (verso)
121 x 182 mm.

來源

Probably Queen Christina of Sweden.
Prince Livio Odescalchi, Rome, by 1713, and thence by descent to
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 20 November 1957, lot 67.
Victor Carlson, Chicago.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 July 1988, lot 113 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. B-126).

出版

M. Roethlisberger, 'Bemerkungen zum zeichnerischen Oeuvre von Claude Lorrain', Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, 1961, p. 165.
M. Roethlisberger, The Wildenstein Album, Paris, 1962, under no. 49.
M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain, The Drawings, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, no. 552.

展覽

Stockholm, Nationalgalerie, Fem Sekler Fransk Konst, 1958, no. 202. New York, Seiferheld Gallery, Animal studies from nature by Claude Lorrain, 1961, no. 6

注意事項

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拍品專文

Related to figures in the left foreground of Claude's Pastoral landscape painted in 1644 for Michel Passart and now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain, The Paintings, New York, 1979, no. 79, pl. 152. Until 1957, the sheet formed part of the so-called Animal album, and appears to be unique among the group for its direct conection with a picture.
The figures by Claude consequently appear in his riccordo of the picture in the Liber Veritas (LV 79). Between 1646 and 1666, partly in an effort to defend the integrity of his increasingly popular work from forgers, Claude began making elaborately finished drawings to record his finished canvases which he had bound into a book: his Liber Veritas. Each riccordo was inscribed on the verso with the date that the painting was completed and the name of the patron who commissioned it. The album was formerly in the collection of the Dukes of Devonshire and passed to the British Museum in 1957.
The verso of the present sheet contains one of Claude's rare academic nudes. Roethlisberger notes that not only is the nude drawn from a life model, but that the sheet is apparently a spontaneous studio product and has not been trimmed at the top and bottom.