Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain
Landscape at Sunset with Mercury and Battus
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain
(Chamagne, Lorraine 1604/5 - 1682 Rome)
Landscape at Sunset with Mercury and Battus
Pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite
230 by 381 mm; 9 by 15 in.
M. de Bourguignon de Fabregoules, Aix-en-Provence,
his collection gifted to Charles-Joseph-Barthélémy Giraud (1802-1881), Aix-en-Provence and Paris,
his collection given in payment of debt to Prosper Flury-Hérard (1804-1873), Paris (L.1015);
Friedrich Wilhelm Klever (1846-1930), Cologne,
his sale, Cologne, Heberle, 18-19 January 1892, lot 100 (as Romische Landschaft);
Private collection, Germany;
with Thomas le Claire Kunsthandel, Hamburg, Master Drawings 1500-1900, 1992,
where acquired by Diane A. Nixon in 1996
New York, The Morgan Library & Museum; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, 2007, no. 42 (entry by Jennifer Tonkovich);
Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art; Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Drawn to Excellence: Renaissance to Romantic Drawings from a Private Collection, 2012-2013, no. 47
M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain. The Paintings, London 1961, vol. I, p. 378, under no. LV 159;
M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings, Berkeley and Los Angeles 1968, vol. I, p. 334, no. 893, reproduced vol. II, fig. 893
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