- Museum number
- 1991,1109.20
- Description
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Landscape with the landing of Aeneas in Latium, sketch connected with the painting; view from a height overlooking the river Tiber, buildings on the Aventine hills at left, two figures in the left foreground, architecture just visible at right. 1673
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over black chalk
- Production date
- 1673
- Dimensions
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Height: 192 millimetres
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Width: 264 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The inscription at the lower left of this composition makes it apparent that Claude made this drawing in situ, even though he exaggerated the high viewpoint. It appears to have been developed by Claude as a drawing after, the 'Landscape with the Arrival of Aeneas in Latium' (for which see LV 185, BM inv. no. 1957,1214.191) which was completed in 1675. This ambitious drawing was preceded by five preparatory studies, and the present one is closest to that produced in October 1673 (Roethlisberger 1968, no. 1081). It is an interesting fusion of a carefully worked out nature drawing and a free hand development of a careful preparatory drawing.
Lit.: M. Roethlisberger, 'Claude Lorrain: The drawings catalog', 2 vols, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, no. 1082; J.J.L. Whiteley, ‘Claude Lorrain: Drawings from the Collections of the British Museum and the Ashmolean Museum’, exh. cat. London & Oxford, 1998–99 (London, 1998), no. 96, pp.155-156; R. Rand, in exhib. cat., San Francisco, Legion of Honor and Williamstown (MA), Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 'Claude Lorrain - The Painter as Draftsman: Drawings from the British Museum', 2007, fig. 133, pp.193-195.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1922, London, Goupil Gallery
1925, Paris, no. 503
1995/6 Nov-Apr, BM, Recent Acquisitions (no cat.)
1998 Jun-Sep, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 'Claude Lorrain', no. 96
1998/9 Sep-Jan, BM, 'Claude Lorrain', no.96
2006/7 Oct-Jan, San Francisco, Legion of Honor, 'Claude Lorrain:...'
2007 Feb-April, Williamstown, Clark Art Institute, 'Claude Lorrain:...'
2007 May-Aug, Washington, Nat Gall of Art, 'Claude Lorrain:...'
- Acquisition date
- 1991
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1991,1109.20