AFTER CLAUDE GELLÉE, CALLED CLAUDE LORRAIN | Classical landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt

The canvas has been relined, re-stretched, cleaned, and restored. No major damages are visible to the naked eye. The paint surface is in very good overall condition. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals three repaired damages of 2 x 4, 2 x 2 and 2 x 2 cm. in the lower foreground, and a repaired tear of 9 cm. centre right, and otherwise restorations is confined to a few local and minor retouchings. In overall very good condition. Offered in a fine French carved and gilt wood frame in good condition.
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A copy after Claude Lorrain's original painting of almost identical dimensions, dated 1647, in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden.¹ 1 Inv. no. 730; see M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain. The paintings, London 1961, vol. I, pp. 274–76, under LV 110, reproduced vol. II, fig. 191.