DrawingsFrench17th century

Roman Landscape; verso: Sketches

17th century

Artists

Claude LorrainArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash with touches of black chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper

Culture

French

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

9.3 x 13.5 cm (3 11/16 x 5 5/16 in.)

Provenance

[Kunsthandlung Gustav Nebehay, Vienna, Austria] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1927), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Related Artworks

Drawings

Study for a Head of a Woman; verso: Study of a Torso

Unidentified Artist, 17th-18th century

Red chalk on paper; verso: red and black chalk

17th-18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Seated Female Nude

Louis Chéron, 17th-18th century

Black and white chalk on tan antique laid paper

17th-18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Coronation with Allegorical Figures

Jacques Blanchard, 17th century

Graphite and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on decorated paper, framing lines in brown ink

17th centuryFrench

Drawings

Album of Tracings after the "Segmenta"

François Perrier, 17th-18th century

Tracings, mostly in graphite, occasionally supplemented with gray wash, on cream antique laid paper

17th-18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Borghese Muse and Borghese Victorious Ceres

François Perrier, 17th century

Black chalk on cream antique laid paper

17th centuryFrench

Drawings

Head of a Faun

Antoine Coypel, 17th-18th century

Black chalk with touches of white chalk on blue antique laid paper

17th-18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Album leaf

François Perrier, 1638

Black chalk on cream antique laid paper

17th centuryFrench

Drawings

Bust of a Young Man with Plumed Hat; verso: Man Wearing a Cap

Jean de Saint-Igny, 17th century

Red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to decorated blue laid paper; verso: red chalk offset

17th centuryFrench

Drawings

Pegasus with Nymphs

Michel II Corneille, 17th-18th century

Brown ink and gray wash with touches of white gouache and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, darkened

17th-18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Standing Draped Man Carrying a Large Bundle on His Shoulder

François Verdier, 17th century

Red and white chalk on tan antique laid paper laid down on tan card

17th centuryFrench

Drawings

Bathers in a Classical Landscape

Unidentified Artist, 17th century

Brush and gray wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink

17th centuryFrench

Drawings

Christ Revealing the Prophets of the Old Testament to the Virgin

François Boitard, 1692

Black ink and gray wash on vellum

17th centuryFrench