Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain (Chamagne circa 1604/5-1682 Rome)

A river landscape

Details

Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain (Chamagne circa 1604/5-1682 Rome)
A river landscape
black chalk, brown wash
4 x 6¼ in. (102 x 159 mm.)

Provenance

W. Esdaile (L. 2617).
R. Mond (L. 2813a); thence by descent to
Mrs. Brackley, Norfolk, 1947.

Literature

T. Borenius and R. Wittkower, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters formed by Sir Robert Mond, L.L.D., F.R.S.E., F.S.A., London, 1937, no. 299, p. 79, pl. LIV (as Campagna landscape; on the Tiber).
M. Rothlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings, Berkeley, 1968, I, p. III, no. 107, II, fig. 107, n.p.

Lot Essay

Professor Rothlisberger dates the drawing to circa 1635 and compares the separation of successive planes to two other landscapes by Claude in the British Museum (Rothlisberger, op. cit., I, pp. 176-77, nos. 384, 388; II, figs. 384, 388, n.p.).

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