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Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
(French, 1604–1682)
Date1651
MediumBlack chalk, pen, and iron-gall ink, two shades of iron-gall wash on laid paper
Dimensions7 7/8 x 10 1/2 in. (20 x 26.7 cm)
Credit LinePurchased by The Frick Collection, 1982
Accession number1982.3.123
CommentaryIn 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.
Not On View
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
1655−58
Attributed to Domenico Beccafumi
ca. 1512−14
