Cocktails with a Curator: Claude’s “Jacob, Rachel, and Leah at the Well”

Jacob, Rachel, and Leah at the Well

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, 1604–1682)

Date1666

MediumPen with iron-gall, gray wash and black chalk on white laid paper

Dimensions8 7/16 × 12 7/8 in. (21.4 × 32.7 cm) Image: 7 15/16 × 12 1/8 in. (20.2 × 30.8 cm)

Credit LinePurchased by The Frick Collection, 1982

Accession number1982.3.125

Collection History

Inventoried in 1713 in the collection of the later Prince Don Livio Odescalchi. Collection of a Polish family (1845). Swiss collection (1939). Georges Wildenstein, 1960. Norton Simon, 1968. Eugene V. Thaw, New York, about 1980. Frick, 1982.

Source: The Frick Collection: Drawings, Prints & Later Acquisitions. Volume IX. New York: The Frick Collection, 2003.

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