LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black chalk, framing lines in brown ink, watermark six-pointed star in a circle (close to Briquet 6089)

Measurements:

7.36 in. (18.70 cm.) (height) by 9.72 in. (24.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

watermark six-pointed star in a circle (close to Briquet 6089)

Literature:

M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain. The Paintings, I, Critical Catalogue, New Haven, 1961, p. 443. M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain. The Wildenstein Album, Paris, 1962, no. 50, ill. M. Roethlisberger, 'Les dessins de Claude Lorrain à sujets rares', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 59, 1962, p. 153, 157, ill. M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorraine. The Drawings. Catalog, Berkeley and Los Angeles, I, 1968, no. 751, ill. M. Roethlisberger, The Claude Lorrain Album in the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971, no. 28

Provenance:

Probably Queen Christina of Sweeden (1626-1689); bequeathed to Cardinal Decio Azzolini (1623-1689). Prince Livio Odescalchi (1652-1713), by descent and until 1845. Private collection, Poland, 1939. Private collection, Switzerland, where acquired by Georges Wildenstein in 1960 (Wildenstein Album). Norton Simon (1907-1993), 1962. Eugene V. Thaw, 1980.