CLAUDE GELLÉE, called CLAUDE LORRAIN
Chamagne (Lorraine) 1600-1682 Rome
Pastoral Landscape with a Figure by a Lake
Inscribed in chalk on the verso, Designe facto per ilm Principe Don Gaspare
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush with brown, grey and grey-brown washes, within the artist’s framing lines
7 ½ x 10 ⅝ inches
191 x 270 mm
Provenance
Studio of the artist, Rome
Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) (?), Rome, by whom bequeathed to
Decio Cardinal Azzolini (1623-1689), Rome, from whose heirs acquired by
Prince Livio Odescalchi, Duke of Bracciano (1652-1713), Rome, thence by descent until 1960 when acquired by
Georges Wildenstein, Paris, by whom sold to
Norton Simon, Pasadena, 1962
Artemis, London, by whom sold in 1989 to
Ladislaus von Hoffmanm, Washington, D.C.
Thence by descent
Literature
M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorraine: The Wildenstein Album, Paris, 1962, p. 21, cat. no. 26, plate 26
M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorraine: The Drawings, Berkeley, 1968, vol. I, p. 405, cat. no. 1102, vol. II, plate 1102
M. Roethlisberger, The Claude Lorrain Album in the Norton Simon Inc Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971, cat. no. 59
Drawn circa 1675
PRIVATE COLLECTION