Claude Lorrain
1600-1682
Landscape with Shrubs and Figures
1645-1650
6 x 12 1/4 inches (154 x 310 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, on paper; study of plants in foreground silhouetted and pasted to landscape at lower center and right.
III, 77
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
This curious sheet consists of a spare pen-and-ink landscape onto which a clipped segment of a drawing containing foliage and two female figures at right has been pasted in order to enrich the foreground. As Marcel Roethlisberger was the first to observe, only the pasted patch with the shrubs and figures is by Claude. He noted that it had already been mounted to the second sheet by 1817. The author of the panoramic view to which the patch has been added remains unknown, as does the identity of the artist or collector who combined the two sheets.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Bird on three mounts in circle with letters "GN".
Associated names
Farington, Joseph, 1747-1821, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, 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, 77, repr.
Roethlisberger, Marcel, Claude Lorrain. The Drawings, 1968, no. 405.
Roethlisberger, Marcel, Claude Lorrain. The Drawings, 1968, no. 405.
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