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Lot 577
  • 577

After Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain

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Description

  • Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain
  • Landscape with Egeria mourning over Numa
  • indistinctly signed and dated lower left: JH....e/1841
  • oil on copper

Catalogue Note

A 19th century copy, in reverse, after Claude's original in the Museo Nazionale, Capodimonte, Naples (see M. Röthlisberger, Claude Lorrain, The Paintings, London 1961, vol. I, pp. 409-13, cat. no. 175, reproduced, vol. II, fig. 284).

The subject is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses (486-92, 547-9).