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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.175
People
Unidentified Artist
After Claude Lorrain, French (Chamagne 1604 - 1682 Rome)
Title
Two Men in a Small Sailing Vessel
Other Titles
Former Title: A Small Ship with Two Lateen Sails Manned by Two Boys
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298919

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash with touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
15.3 x 20.8 cm (6 x 8 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: None
  • collector's mark: lower edge: CSB [Charles Sackville Bale, L.640]
  • inscription: verso: Claudio

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles Sackville Bale, London (his mark, L.640); his sale, London, Christie's, 9-14 June 1881, lot 2370, sold; to Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932, inv. no. 1932.175

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.175
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alfred M. Frankfurter, "Baroque Masters: The Dutch and the French on Parade", Art News (1938), p. 13, p. 13
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. I, cat. no. 576, pp. 306-307, vol. III, fig. 293, repr. (as possibly Claude Lorrain)
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 119 ("Cartella con quattro stelle nere")

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Claude Lorrain, 1600-1682, Durlacher Brothers, 01/19/1938 - 02/12/1938

Verification Level

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