View from Tivoli

In this drawing, one of many Claude made of the Roman countryside, the artist explores the optical effects of blazing sunlight. Alternating bands of light and dark in the foreground give way to a hazy rendering of the distant hills. Against this radiant backdrop, three hunters appear in blurred silhouettes.

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.