Claude Lorrain
1600-1682
Landscape, with Shepherds Watering Their Cattle in a Pool
ca. 1646-1650
6 inches (150 mm), circular, diameter
Brown wash over graphite on paper.
III, 80
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
This roundel is related to a painting commissioned in 1646 for an unknown patron in Avignon, depicting a Pastoral Landscape with the Flight Into Egypt (Nivaagaard Collection, Denmark; 15NMK). The painting is recorded in Claude's Liber Veritatis (British Museum, London, no. 104). The present roundel is a reduction of the composition based on the Liber Veritatis drawing, and, like III, 81, it may have been preceded by a preliminary pen drawing. In reducing the composition to this format, Claude simplified the landscape and figures, leaving the Holy Family out of this small-scale version.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Indecipherable, lined.
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 80, repr.
Roethlisberger, Marcel. Claude Lorrain. The Drawings. 1968, no. 614.
Roethlisberger, Marcel. Claude Lorrain. The Drawings. 1968, no. 614.
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