Harbor with a Large Tower (Le Port de mer à la grosse tour), c. 1641

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to and within plate mark): 13.2 x 19.8 cm (5 3/16 x 7 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Mannocci 1988, no. 39, State iv/vi

Accession Number

1994.47.1

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left plate in the vertical margin: 9; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: L.M. 39 iv/vi Ex. Coll H. VEVER / -together with L.M. 27 III, A/v-

Provenance

Henri Vever (1854-1942) (Lugt Supplément 1381); Christopher Mendez, London (sale, March 22-April 8, 1994, no. 29); purchased 1994 by NGA.

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher
Vever, Henri

Exhibition History

1995: Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Bibliography

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

1982: Russell 1982, 29.

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