1984.796: Three Men in a Boat

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1984.796

People

Claude Lorrain, French (Chamagne 1604 - 1682 Rome)

Title

Three Men in a Boat

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295275

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash, and graphite over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream wove paper

Dimensions

12.9 x 21.2 cm (5 1/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: recto of old mount, under gold border, in graphite: ... Esdaile & Thomas Lawrence Sainsbury
• inscription: recto of old mount, under gold border at left, in graphite: [circular mark]3
• inscription: recto of old mount, l.c. in graphite: 34172 #1
• inscription: recto of old mount, l.l., in graphite: A.F. Johnson 50 State Street Boston
• inscription: recto of old mount, behind drawing, in graphite: L.g. gw
• inscription: verso of old mount, upper center, in graphite: 406 / 12 3/4 x 16 3/4 — 22 mat / 2668 / title on back
• collector's mark: recto, l.l.: TL [blind stamp] WE [collector's mark]
• collector's mark: verso, l.l., in brown ink: 1836 WE.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (?-1830), sold; [through Samuel Woodburn, London, August 1835]; to William Esdaile, London (1835-1840), sold; [through Christies, London, June 30, 1840, lot 44]. Agnes Mongan, Cambridge, MA, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1984.

Notes:
1. Following Sir Thomas Lawrence’s death in 1830 several years went by before the collection passed to Samuel Woodburn in 1835 due to some complications with stipulations in the will.
2. When Agnes Mongan offered the drawing to the museum in 1984, she stated that she had owned the drawing for a long time, at least fifty years.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Agnes Mongan

Accession Year

1984

Object Number

1984.796

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• Marcel Roethlisberger, "Claude Lorrain in the National Gallery of Art", Report and Studies in the History of Art, National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 1969), pp. 35-57, p. 41, repr. p. 41 as fig. 9
• Marcel Roethlisberger, "Drawings by Claude Lorrain: The Past Fifty Years", Master Drawings (Winter 2018), 56, no. 4, pp. 486-516, p. 495, fig. 15

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