LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash over traces of black chalk

Size Notes:

175 by 251 mm; 6 ? by 9 ? in

Edition:

The marine coast in the distance, opening to the sky, creates a particularly successful sense of space and overall pictorial balance, with contrasts of tone and variety of penwork that would originally have been more evident than they are today. The drawing is mostly executed in extremely fine and dense strokes of the pen, and stylistically must date to the 1640s. The pastoral subject also fits well with Claude's work of these years. The careful execution and very balanced composition could indicate that this drawing was made for its own sake and not necessarily in preparation for a painting. As Marcel Roethlisberger observed, 'The forties were for him a Carracesque decade, in which his compositions moved away from the narrative, romantic pastorals towards a more heroic concept of landscape.'1

Description:

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Markings:

bears signature in pen and ink lower right: Claudio Gellee