drawing;
sketch-book
- Museum number
- 1957,1214.14
- Description
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Landscape with peasants crossing a ford, record of painting in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from the Liber Veritatis; in foreground five figures, beyond at right other figures in a boat
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, with grey-brown wash
- Production date
- 1636
- Dimensions
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Height: 191 millimetres
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Width: 251 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1957,1214.6 for information on the Liber Veritatis.
Kitson, Liber Veritatis:
Painting
New York, Metropolitan Museum. Canvas, 74 x 101 cm; signed and dated 'CLAVDIO F ROMAE 163..' (the missing last digit is likely to have been a 6). RP, fig. 40; R-C, 59. The drawing corresponds exactly to the painting.
Engravings
Earlom, 8; Caracciolo, 9.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1977 BM, Claude Lorrain: Liber Veritatis
- Acquisition date
- 1957
- Acquisition notes
- Accepted by H M Government in lieu of tax on the estate of the 9th Duke of Devonshire.
See M. Kitson's 'Claude Lorrain: Liber Veritatis', pp. 28-9, for a full account of the provenance of the sketch-book.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1957,1214.14