River Landscape

c. 1635/1638

Claude Lorrain

Associated Names
Claude Lorrain

Artist, French, 1604/1605 - 1682

The image shows a landscape with a horizon in the upper third, marked by mountains. In the distance, a bridge crosses a body of water. Loose brushstrokes convey a spontaneous feel. Earthy tones dominate the color palette, giving an antique quality. A tree trunk and two figures are also present in the scene.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash and black and red chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 12.5 x 17.1 cm (4 15/16 x 6 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1971.92.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Roethlisberger 1968, no. 583

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sir Bruce S. Ingram [1877-1962], London (Lugt 1405a); by descent; (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd.); purchased by NGA, 1971.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 54.

1982

  • Claude Lorrain 1600-1682. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1982: no. 35.

Bibliography

1962

  • Roethlisberger, Marcel. "Dessins de Claude à sujets rares." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 59(1962): 164, note 20.

1968

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

Inscriptions

in later hand, upper right verso in graphite: Claude Lorrain

Wikidata ID

Q64540120

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