Claude Lorrain
1600-1682
Rocky Hillside with Traveler. Verso: two sketches of a goat rearing on its hind legs
1635-1640
7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (197 x 267 mm)
Brown wash over black and red chalk; verso: two slight sketches in graphite.
2017.151
Thaw Collection.
Notes
Typical of Claude's double-sided sketchbook sheets, this page is heavily washed on the recto and contains a slight sketch of a goat in red chalk on the verso, combining observations about the landscape and the animals who dwell in it. Roethlisberger considered the present sheet close in style to Claude's drawings of the late 1630s. Claude has depicted a traveler shouldering a burden and hiking up a hillside to a stone doorway embedded in the rock.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pen and brown ink by a later hand on the rock at lower left: "C. Gellee".
Associated names
Ames, Winslow, former owner.
Mitchell, Austin A., former owner.
Komor, Mathias, 1909-1984, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Mitchell, Austin A., former owner.
Komor, Mathias, 1909-1984, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 236, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 18, repr.
Roethlisberger, Marcel, Claude Lorrain. The Drawings, 1968, no. 361.
Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 18, repr.
Roethlisberger, Marcel, Claude Lorrain. The Drawings, 1968, no. 361.
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Century Drawings
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