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A rare 19th-Century Claude glass, or dark mirror,
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A rare 19th-Century Claude glass, or dark mirror,

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A rare 19th-Century Claude glass, or dark mirror,
by Negretti & Zambra, in a leather-covered case, the inside of the lid with gilt maker's cartouche, with two brass hooks and eyes and suspension loop -- 14.9cm. (5 7/8in.) wide
出版
MAILLET, Arnaud, The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art (Zone Books MIT, 2004)
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

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The Claude glass is a slightly convex dark mirror, first used in the early eighteenth century. It is an artist's aid, named for the Baroque Rome-based landscape painter Claude Lorrain, whose use of subtly graduated tones proved very popular in the years following his death. The landscape painter uses the glass to reflect the subject of his painting, thereby softening the light and, by reducing the colour of the scene, revealing more clearly the tonal graduations to be reproduced.