drawing;
sketch-book
- Museum number
- 1957,1214.81
- Description
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Pastoral landscape, record of the painting (now lost) from the Liber Veritatis; in foreground two figures at r, and animals near river
Pen and brown ink and brown wash
- Production date
- 1635-1682
- Dimensions
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Height: 195 millimetres
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Width: 263 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1957,1214.6 for information on the Liber Veritatis.
This drawing is typical of Claude's pastoral landscapes in the artful combination of livestock and pastoral figures, distant mountains and trees used as framing devices. The composition subsequently formed the starting pont for LV83 and 91 (for which see 1957,1214.89 & .97). The painting which it records was burnt in a fire in 1946 when in the collection of the Count of Jersey (for discussion see Kitson 1978, no. 75, pp.89–90).
Lit: M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain, The Paintings, London 1961, LV75, pp. 219–220; M. Roethlisberger, ‘Claude Lorrain. The Drawings’, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968, no. 534; M. Kitson, ‘Claude Lorrain: Liber Veritatis’, London 1978, no. 75
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1977 BM, Claude Lorrain: Liber Veritatis
1994 Jan-Apr, London, National Gallery, 'Claude. The Poetic Landscape'
- 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
- 1957,1214.81