- Museum number
- 1957,1214.57
- Description
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The liberation of St Peter (Acts 12:1-11), record of the painting (whereabouts unknown) in the Liber Veritatis; interior, with an angel touching Peter's shoulder in foreground, and another figure beyond at r
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white, on blue paper
- Production date
- 1640 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 197 millimetres
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Width: 265 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1957,1214.6 for further discussion on the Liber Veritatis.
This drawing is the only pure figure and the only interior which Claude is known to have painted. It was a commission from Angelo Giorio, chamberlain to Urban VIII, prior to his elevation to cardinal in 1643. As he is given this title by Claude on the verso he must have added the inscription after this date to a drawing executed a few years earlier around 1640-41. The painting it records is unknown, but was presumably small and possibly on copper. Giorio must have been commissioned at the same time as LV 52 (1957,1214.57): 'The Departure of Rebekah'.
Lit: M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain, The Paintings, London 1961, LV51, p.187; M. Roethlisberger, ‘Claude Lorrain. The Drawings’, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968, no. 377, p.174; M. Kitson, ‘Claude Lorrain: Liber Veritatis’, London 1978, no. 51, pp.83–84; J.J.L. Whiteley, exhib.cat., Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, `Claude Lorrain: Drawings from the Collections of the British Museum and the Ashmolean Museum`, 1998, no. 51, p.105
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1977, BM, Claude Lorrain: Liber Veritatis
1998 Jun-Sep 1998, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Claude Lorrain, no.51
1998/9 Sep -Jan 1999, BM, Claude Lorrain, no.51
- 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
- 1957,1214.57