1996.133: Apollo as a Herdsman, Playing a Pipe, with Mercury in the Background; verso: Three Goats

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1996.133

People

Claude Lorrain, French (Chamagne 1604 - 1682 Rome)

Title

Apollo as a Herdsman, Playing a Pipe, with Mercury in the Background; verso: Three Goats

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1654

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294018

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown and gray ink, brown and gray wash, and white gouache on blue antique laid paper, with framing lines in brown ink; verso: black and white chalk

Dimensions

19.4 x 27 cm (7 5/8 x 10 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Possibly Queen Christina of Sweden (?-1689), by descent; to Cardinal Decio Azzolini (by 1689), by descent; to Marchese Pompeo Azzolini. Prince Livio Odescalchi, Rome (?-1713), by descent; to Odescalchi Family (1713-1960), sold; [to Georges Wildenstein (1960-1968), sold]; to Norton Simon, Los Angeles and Pasadena, CA (1968-1980), sold; [to Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London (1980-1994), sold]; [through Sotheby’s, New York, January 12, 1994, lot 57]; [to Vermeer Associates Limited, New York, NY (1994-1996), sold]; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1996.

Notes:
1. In his 1971 publication “The Claude Lorrain Album in the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art” Marcel Roethlisberger claims that the “Wildenstein-Norton” album the drawing belonged to was dismantled in 1970 (see p.5). It is certain that the album had been dismantled by 1973, when the Fogg Art Museum received sixty individually framed Claude Lorrain drawings to be exhibited in the traveling exhibition “The Claude Lorrain Album in The Norton Simon Inc. Museum of Art.” Hence the above listed provenance refers to the entire album until circa 1970 when it was dismantled and the drawing was sold separately.
2. The private collector Norton Simon purchased the drawing in 1968. In 1974 Norton Simon assumed the leadership of the financially troubled Pasadena Museum of Art. After integrating his private collection into the museum’s collection the museum was renamed the Norton Simon Museum of Art in 1975. The drawing may have been part of the museum's collection before being sold in 1980.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in honor of Emily Rauh Pulitzer

Accession Year

1996

Object Number

1996.133

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), no. 19, repr. as plate 19
• Marcel Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings, University of California Press (Berkeley, 1968), vol. 1 cat. no. 721, vol. 2 repr. as fig. 721 [album discussed pp. 65-66]
• 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. 37, repr.
• 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. 30
• Marcel Roethlisberger, Im Licht von Claude Lorrain: Landschaftsmalerei aus drei Jahrhunderten: Haus der Kunst München, 12. März bis 29. Mai 1983, exh. cat., Hirmer Verlag (Munich, 1983), cat. no. 54, repr.
• 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 (note 56) [Wildenstein-Norton Simon album]
• Michael Kitson, "Claude Lorrain as a Figure Draughtsman", Drawing: Masters and Methods: Raphael to Redon, ed. Diana Dethloff, P. Wilson/H. N. Abrams (London, England/New York NY, 1992), pp. 76-77, repr. p. 81 as fig. 28
• Marcel Roethlisberger, "Drawings by Claude Lorrain: The Past Fifty Years", Master Drawings (Winter 2018), 56, no. 4, pp. 486-516, p. 487, fig. 1
• 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), p. 93, fig. 2

Exhibition History

• Drawings by Claude Lorrain, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 05/02/1970 - 07/07/1970
• 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
• Im Licht von Claude Lorrain, Haus der Kunst München, Munich, 03/12/1983 - 05/29/1983

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