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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2000.70
People
Claude Lorrain, French (Chamagne 1604 - 1682 Rome)
Title
Pastoral Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1666
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/192943

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
17.3 x 23.4 cm (6 13/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower right, brown ink: Claudio Gelle inv [illegible] / Roma 1666

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Queen Christina of Sweden, Rome (bound together with other drawings in an album); Cardinal Decio Azzolini, Rome; his nephew, Marchese Pompeo Azzolini, Rome, by descent; Prince Livio Odescalchi, Rome (also referred to hence as the Odescalchi Album); Odescalchi family, Rome, by descent; private collection, Poland (by 1939); private collection, Switzerland (by 1960); Georges Wildenstein, Paris (also referred to hence as the Wildenstein Album); Hans Calmann, London (by c. 1958; some drawings removed); Norton Simon, Pasadena (by 1968; also referred to hence as the Norton Simon Album; then dismembered); Thomas Agnew and Sons, London; Vermeer Associates Limited, New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of the Estates of Margaret H. Rousseau and William C. Rousseau and the Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in honor of Norma Jean and Stanford Calderwood, 2000.70

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of the Estates of Margaret H. Rousseau and William C. Rousseau and the Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in honor of Norma Jean and Stanford Calderwood
Accession Year
2000
Object Number
2000.70
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marcel Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Wildenstein Album, Les Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1962), cat. no. 17, p. 17
  • Marcel Roethlisberger, "Un dessin de Claude Gellée au Musée d'Art et d'Histoire", Genava, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève (Geneva, 1968), vol. 41, pp. 203-207, pp. 205-207
  • Marcel Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings, University of California Press (Berkeley, 1968), vol. 1, cat. no. 955, p. 355, vol. 2, pl. 355
  • Marcel Roethlisberger, The Claude Lorrain Album in the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, 1971), cat. no. 53, p. 30
  • Gabrielle Naughton and Christopher Kingzett, Claude Lorrain (1600-1682): An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Partly from Private Collections, to mark the Artist's Tercentenary, exh. cat., Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd. (London, 1982), cat. no. 35, pp. 62-63
  • Marcel Roethlisberger, "The Drawing Collection of Prince Livio Odescalchi", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 1986), vol. 23-24, no. 1, Winter, pp. 5-30, pp. 20, 27-n.56
  • Akira Kofuku, Claude Lorrain and the Ideal Landscape, exh. cat., Kokuritsu Seiyo Bijutsukan (Tokyo, 1998), cat no. 85, p. 127
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 27, repr., p. 18

Exhibition History

  • The Claude Lorrain Album in The Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 04/18/1973 - 06/17/1973; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/21/1973 - 10/21/1973
  • Claude Lorrain (1600-1682): An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings..., Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London, 11/09/1982 - 12/10/1982
  • Claude Lorrain and the Ideal Landscape, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/15/1998 - 12/16/1998

Verification Level

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