DrawingsFrench17th century

Child Entrusted to Chiron

c. 1660

Artists

Claude LorrainArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash, and white gouache over traces of graphite on dark cream antique laid paper prepared with a reddish brown wash, partial framing lines in brown ink, laid down on off-white card

Culture

French

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

22.9 x 12.4 cm (9 x 4 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Monsieur Perry; Frederick Keppel, New York, sold; to Monsieur Rippel; Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs, 1965.242

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