Claude Lorrain

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Claude Lorrain

1600-1682

Tiber Landscape

ca. 1635

Pen and brown ink and wash and watercolor over black chalk on two joined sheets of paper.

4 13/16 x 6 inches (122 x 153 mm)

Thaw Collection.

2017.150

Notes:

Roethlisberger has proposed a date in the mid-1630s for this riverine view on the basis of its subject matter and technique. At the time Claude had not yet fully embraced the classical subject matter which preoccupied him for most of his artistic career. He was still working in a pen and wash style reminiscent of his Flemish predecessors in Rome such as Bartholomeus Breenbergh. The drawing was later extended with the addition of the sky and is made up at lower right. Roethlisberger reproduces the sheet without the later additions, which likely were carried out when the sheet was mounted, presumably by Richardson as the additions regularized the sheet around which he placed his gold border.

Inscription:

Inscribed "C.G." at lower left corner, alongside Richardson's and Bouverie's marks (possibly a monogram, according to Roethlisberger; see also III, 78).

Provenance:

Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (1667-1745), London (Lugt 2183); his sale, London, Mr. Cock, 22 January-8 February, 1746-7 (to Bouverie); John Bouverie (c. 1723-1750), Betchworth, Surrey (Lugt 325); his sister Anne Bouverie (d. 1757), Betchworth; her husband, John Hervey (d. 1764), Betchworth; his son Christopher Hervey (d. 1786), London and Betchworth; his spinster aunt, Miss Elizabeth Bouverie (d. 1798), Teston, Kent; bequeathed by her to her childhood friend's husband, Sir Charles Middleton, later 1st Baron Barham (1726-1813), Teston; his son-in-law, Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baron Barham (1759-1838); his son, Charles Noel, 3rd Baron Barham and later 1st Earl of Gainsborough (1781-1866), Exton Park, Oakham; his anonymous ["Bouverie"] sale, London, Christie's, 20 July 1859; Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London (according to J.P. Heseltine, 1901); John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929), London; Villiers David (1906-1985), London; Hazlitt Gallery, London; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.

Associated names:

Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Bouverie, Edward, 1767-1858, former owner.
Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910, former owner.
Heseltine, J. P. (John Postle), 1843-1929, former owner.
David, Villiers, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography:

Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 235, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 15, repr.
Roethlisberger, Marcel, Claude Lorrain. The Drawings, 1968, no. 106.

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