DrawingsFrench17th century

Landscape with the Triumph of David

c. 1660

Artists

Claude LorrainArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash, heightened and corrected with white gouache, over black chalk on cream antique laid paper

Culture

French

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

22.8 x 34.6 cm (9 x 13 5/8 in.) framed: 39.69 x 52.07 x 4.45 cm (15 5/8 x 20 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Dr. Henry Wellesley, New Inn Hall, Oxford; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1866 and following days, lot 1394; Charles Sackville Bale, London; his sale, Christie's, London, 9 June 1881 and following days, lot 2357; private collection, Paris; Galerie Moatti, Paris (by c. 1992); Vermeer Associates Limited, New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase, Richard Norton Memorial, Marian H. Phinney, Paul J. Sachs Memorial, and Agnes Mongan Purchase Funds, 1993.75

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