Landscape with Brigands (Scène de brigands)

1633

Claude Lorrain

Associated Names
Claude Lorrain

Artist, French, 1604/1605 - 1682

The image is a landscape etching portraying a scene from an elevated point of view. The terrain stretches toward a mountainous background with the horizon placed high. Three figures are engaged in discussion beneath a tall palm tree on the left side. The etching showcases detailed line work with hatching for shadows and texture in vegetation and mountains. The color palette is monochromatic with sepia or dark brown ink against a cream background, highlighting contrasts and texture in the landscape.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.1 x 19.9 cm (5 3/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 13.3 x 20.1 cm (5 1/4 x 7 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1948.11.133

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mannocci 1988, no. 11, State ii/ix

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 88, repro.

1951

  • French Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, University of Pittsburgh, 1951.

1960

  • Graphic Masterpieces of 500 Years from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Louisiana State University Library, Baton Rouge, 1960, no. 29.

1965

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 63, repro.

1989

  • Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Cleveland Museum of Art; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,1989, no. 83, repro.

Bibliography

1923

  • Blum, Andre. Les eaux-fortes de Claude Gellee dit le Lorrain. Paris: Editions Albert Morance, 1923.

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil 12.

1982

  • Russell 1982, 17B.

1988

  • Mannocci, Lino. The Etchings of Claude Lorrain (catalogue raisonné). New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988.

1989

  • Reed, Sue Welsh and Richard Wallace. Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque. Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989: no.83.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate along margin: CLAVD.I.V.ROMAE 1633

Wikidata ID

Q65071418

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