Two Women in Classical Dress, mid-1640s

Not on View

Medium

black chalk and pen and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache on apricot-prepared paper, with later framing line in black ink

Dimensions

Overall: 16.6 x 13.3 cm (6 9/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
support: 25.2 x 20 cm (9 15/16 x 7 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Roethlisberger 1968, undescribed

Accession Number

1978.108.1

Artists / Makers

Claude Lorrain (artist) French, 1604/1605 - 1682

Image Use

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Inscription

in later hand, upper left verso in red and blue ball-point pen: 26/51

Provenance

(Gino Tedeschi, Rome); (Stuart Denenberg, New York, 1965); Kahlil Gibran; (Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York); (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London); purchased 1978 by NGA.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Denenberg, S.
Feigen, Richard L.
Gibran, Jean and Kahlil
Tedeschi, Gino

Exhibition History

1982: Claude Lorrain 1600-1682. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1982: no. 39.

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 62-63, 277-277, no. 22 (color).

Bibliography

1968: Roethlisberger, Marcel. Claude Lorrain: The Drawings. 2 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.

1979: Roethlisberger, Marcel. "Additional Works by Goffredo Wals and Claude Lorrain." The Burlington Magazine 121 (1979): 28, fig. 41.