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A villa among cypresses
Details
Circle of Claude Gellée, Claude Lorrain (Chamagne 1600-1682 Rome)
A villa among cypresses
black chalk
3¼ x 4 3/8 in. (82 x 110 mm.)
A villa among cypresses
black chalk
3¼ x 4 3/8 in. (82 x 110 mm.)
Provenance
Earl Spencer (L. 1530), his mount and inventory number 'K/No42'.
Thomas Philip Robinson, 3rd Baron de Grey, later 2nd Earl de Grey and 5th Baron Lucas (1781-1859) (cf. L. 1696), and by descent to
Lady Lucas and Dingwall, Wrest Park; Sotheby's, 3 May 1918, part of lot 133 (38s.6d. to Oppé, with the following drawing in the present sale).
Thomas Philip Robinson, 3rd Baron de Grey, later 2nd Earl de Grey and 5th Baron Lucas (1781-1859) (cf. L. 1696), and by descent to
Lady Lucas and Dingwall, Wrest Park; Sotheby's, 3 May 1918, part of lot 133 (38s.6d. to Oppé, with the following drawing in the present sale).
Literature
M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain, The Drawings, Berkeley, 1968, no. 1213 (as an unknown artist contemporary to Claude's early work).
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, The Paul Oppé Collection, 1958, no. 331b.
Engraved
by Richard Earlom, Liber Veritatis..., III, London, 1819, no. 52.
Special notice
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