1993.75: Landscape with the Triumph of David

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1993.75

People

Claude Lorrain, French (Chamagne 1604 - 1682 Rome)

Title

Landscape with the Triumph of David

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1660

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299972

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash, heightened and corrected with white gouache, over black chalk on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

22.8 x 34.6 cm (9 x 13 5/8 in.)
framed: 39.69 x 52.07 x 4.45 cm (15 5/8 x 20 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.l: claudi lor...
• inscription: brown ink, lower right : quando il re David andare/in gerusalem la.../in s...
• inscription: lower right, brown ink: quando il re David andare / in gerusalem la [illegible] / in s [illegible]
• inscription: lower right, graphite: claudi lor [illegible]
• watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Dr. Henry Wellesley, New Inn Hall, Oxford; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1866 and following days, lot 1394; Charles Sackville Bale, London; his sale, Christie's, London, 9 June 1881 and following days, lot 2357; private collection, Paris; Galerie Moatti, Paris (by c. 1992); Vermeer Associates Limited, New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase, Richard Norton Memorial, Marian H. Phinney, Paul J. Sachs Memorial, and Agnes Mongan Purchase Funds, 1993.75

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund, Richard Norton Memorial Fund, Marian H. Phinney Fund, Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund, and Agnes Mongan Purchase Fund

Accession Year

1993

Object Number

1993.75

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Marcel Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings, University of California Press (Berkeley, 1968), vol. 1, p. 430
• Marcel Roethlisberger, "Newly Discovered Drawings by Claude Lorrain", Drawing, Broadaxe Press (New York, 1993), vol. 15, no. 1, May-June, pp. 7-10, p. 9
• Duncan Bull, "Paris: Salon du Dessin", The Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd. (London, 1993), vol. 135, no. 1082, May, pp. 367-69, p. 369
• "Report of the Director", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1993-1994), vol. 2, no 2, Winter, p. 15
• François Souchal, "Principales acquisitions de musées en 1993", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1994), ser. 6, vol. 123, no. 1502, March, p. 53
• James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 218-219
• Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
• James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), pp. 52-53, repr.
• Matthias Waschek, Marjorie B. Cohn, Judith Mann, and Stephan Wolohojian, Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, 2008), cat. no. 45, pp. 34-35
• Marcel Roethlisberger, "Drawings by Claude Lorrain: The Past Fifty Years", Master Drawings (Winter 2018), 56, no. 4, pp. 486-516, p. 502, fig. 34
• 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. 26, repr., p. 18

Exhibition History

• Collecting for Harvard: Works Acquired through the Generosity of Melvin R. Seiden, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/03/1993 - 08/15/1993
• A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1480 to 1940, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/25/2000 - 07/02/2000
• Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10/24/2008 - 10/03/2009
• 32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 03/12/2015

Subjects and Contexts

• Google Art Project

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