LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

20.00 in. (50.80 cm.) (height) by 27.09 in. (68.80 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters, Associated with Works of Deceased Masters of the British School, 1871, no. 121. London, Heim Gallery, French Paintings and Sculptures of the 17th Century, 12 June-15 August 1968, no. 13. New York, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Landscape Painting in Rome, 1595-1675, 30 January-23 March 1985, no. 20 (entry by A. Sutherland Harris). Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, Claude Lorrain - The Painter as Draftsman: Drawings from the British Museum, 27 May-12 August 2007. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, on loan, August 2007-May 2018.

Literature:

J. Young, Catalogue of the Pictures at Grosvenor House, London, 1820, p. 10, no. 29, illustrated. J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, London, 1837, VIII, p. 344, no. 314. A. Jameson, Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London, London, 1844, p. 249, no. 26. P. Courthion, Claude Gellée dit le Lorrain, Paris, 1932, p. 15. M. Kitson, The Art of Claude Lorrain, exhibition catalogue, Hayward Gallery, London, 1969, p. 29, under no. 35. M. Röthlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Paintings, New Haven, 1961 and New York, 1979, I, pp. 498-499, no. 230, II, fig. 274. M. Röthlisberger, L'opera completa di Claude Lorrain, Milan, 1975, pp. 119-120, no. 242, illustrated.

Provenance:

Welbore Ellis Agar (1735-1805), Commissioner of Customs, by whom bequeathed as part of his collection to his illegitimate sons, Welbore Felix Agar and Emmanuel Felix Agar; Christie's, London, 2-3 May 1806, lot 36, where acquired before the sale en bloc with the whole Agar collection, by William Seguier, on behalf of Robert, 2nd Earl Grosvenor, later 1st Marquess of Westminster (1767-1845), Eaton Hall, Cheshire, and by descent in the family to Hugh Richard Arthur, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879-1953); (†) Sotheby’s, London, 24 June 1959, lot 10, where acquired by the present owner.