Claude Lorrain

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Claude Lorrain

1600-1682

Landscape, with Shepherds Watering Their Cattle in a Pool

ca. 1646-1650

Brown wash over graphite on paper.

6 inches (150 mm), circular, diameter

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

III, 80

Notes:

This roundel is related to a painting commissioned in 1646 for an unknown patron in Avignon, depicting a Pastoral Landscape with the Flight Into Egypt (Nivaagaard Collection, Denmark; 15NMK). The painting is recorded in Claude's Liber Veritatis (British Museum, London, no. 104). The present roundel is a reduction of the composition based on the Liber Veritatis drawing, and, like III, 81, it may have been preceded by a preliminary pen drawing. In reducing the composition to this format, Claude simplified the landscape and figures, leaving the Holy Family out of this small-scale version.

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Watermark: Indecipherable, lined.

Provenance:

Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

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Associated names:

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, 80, repr.
Roethlisberger, Marcel. Claude Lorrain. The Drawings. 1968, no. 614.

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