print
- Museum number
- M,12.29
- Description
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Departure for the fields; herd of cows and goats, followed by a man, a woman and another woman riding a donkey; bridge, water mill and a circular temple, perhaps the Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, in the background. c.1638/41
Etching
- Production date
- 1638-1641 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 127 millimetres
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Width: 180 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The composition is based on Claude's painting now in Raleigh, Museum of North Carolina, for which there is a related drawing in the BM's 'Liber Veritatis', see 1957,1214.26.
This print was issued as a black and white facsimile by the British Museum in 'Reproductions of Prints in the British Museum', Third Series Part III (Specimens of Etching by French Masters 1620-1670), Published by the Trustees, in 1909 where it was number XVI and described there as 'Claude Gellée (Le Lorrain). Herd going to the Fields.'; see 1909,0512.7.24 (Shelfmark 245*.b.32).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Acquisition notes
- For a comment see M,12.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- M,12.29
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 1973,U.614