Claude Lorrain

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Claude Lorrain

1600-1682

Landscape with Shrubs and Figures

1645-1650

Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, on paper; study of plants in foreground silhouetted and pasted to landscape at lower center and right.

6 x 12 1/4 inches (154 x 310 mm)

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

III, 77

Notes:

This curious sheet consists of a spare pen-and-ink landscape onto which a clipped segment of a drawing containing foliage and two female figures at right has been pasted in order to enrich the foreground. As Marcel Roethlisberger was the first to observe, only the pasted patch with the shrubs and figures is by Claude. He noted that it had already been mounted to the second sheet by 1817. The author of the panoramic view to which the patch has been added remains unknown, as does the identity of the artist or collector who combined the two sheets.

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Watermark: Bird on three mounts in circle with letters "GN".

Provenance:

Joseph Farington (1747-1821), London (according to Marcel Roethlisberger; no mark; see Lugt 1453); 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:

Farington, Joseph, 1747-1821, former owner.
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, 77, repr.
Roethlisberger, Marcel, Claude Lorrain. The Drawings, 1968, no. 405.

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