Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain
Landscape towards Mount Parnassus
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January 31, 05:59 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain
Chamagne, Lorraine 1604/5 - 1682 Rome
Landscape towards Mount Parnassus
Pen and brown ink and gray, brown and red wash, over traces of black and red chalk, heightened with white, squared with diagonals in brown ink; on two sheets of paper, a smaller one stuck, by the artist, to a larger one and mounted on its original album page
168 by 230 mm; 6 ⅝ by 9 in.
Anonymous sale, London
with Hans Calmann, circa 1945,
where acquired by Sir John Phillips, Bt., (1915-1948), Picton Castle, Wales,
by descent to his sister, Lady Dunsany,
thence by descent in the same family, in Ireland, until 2012,
with Day and Faber, London 2012,
where purchased by the present owner
with Hans Calmann, circa 1945,
where acquired by Sir John Phillips, Bt., (1915-1948), Picton Castle, Wales,
by descent to his sister, Lady Dunsany,
thence by descent in the same family, in Ireland, until 2012,
with Day and Faber, London 2012,
where purchased by the present owner
M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain, The Paintings, vol. I; The Critical Catalogue, New Haven, 1961 (2nd edition New York, 1979), p. 309;
M. Roethlisberger, "Dessins de Claude Lorrain", in L'Oeil, June 1961, p.56, reproduced;
M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain, The Drawings, 2 vols., Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, vol. I, p. 290, no. 764, reproduced, vol. II, pl. 764
M. Roethlisberger, "Dessins de Claude Lorrain", in L'Oeil, June 1961, p.56, reproduced;
M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain, The Drawings, 2 vols., Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, vol. I, p. 290, no. 764, reproduced, vol. II, pl. 764
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