Claude Gelle, called Claude Lorrain* (1600-1682)

A fortified Farmhouse on a Hilltop (recto); A Fisherman repairing his Net near two Boats (verso)

Details

Claude Gelle, called Claude Lorrain* (1600-1682)
A fortified Farmhouse on a Hilltop (recto); A Fisherman repairing his Net near two Boats (verso)
pen and brown ink
4 x 3 in. (124 x 94 mm.)

Provenance

With P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1936.
Sir Bruce Ingram (L. 1405a).

Literature

M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, no. 50, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Landscape in French Art, 1949, no. 458.

Lot Essay

Professor Marcel Roethlisberger dates the drawing to 1630-5 and compares the style to the slightly smaller 'early sketchbook' datable to the early 1630s and discussed by Roethlisberger under nos. 1-38.
The same farmhouse appears sketched in wash in the background of a drawing at the British Museum, M. Roethlisberger, op. cit., no. 13 illustrated.