The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 24, 2024
David and Goliath (verso)
c. 1645
(French, 1604–1682)
Sheet: 26 x 40.5 cm (10 1/4 x 15 15/16 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Greene 1928.15.b
Location: not on view
Description
This drawing represents a view of the famous Acqua Acetosa, a mineral spring that until the 19th century provided the favored drinking water of Romans who believed in its healing powers. Although topographically accurate, the sheet is not a plein-air study but a vision of an imagined Arcadian world carefully rendered by Gellée, one of the most original painters of the 17th century. The French-born artist spent his career painting and drawing the Roman Campagna and the Neopolitan coastline. Sublimely beautiful pen-and-ink and wash drawings such as the example here reveal the artist's highly poetic response to the natural world and his unparalleled sensitivity to light.- Sir Joshua Reynolds(?); Sir Abraham Hume; by descent to Lord Alford; by descent to the Earls of Brownlow; [sale, Sotheby's, London, 14 July 1926, lot 43]; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Belden Greene, Cleveland.
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. Mentioned: Cat. no. 34, P. 4, 6, 94-97; Reproduced: P. 96
- cma 1932-33; cma 1934; Buffalo 1935, no. 47; cma 1941b; Boston 1945, 4; Cambridge 1948-49, no. 42; cma 1949a; Philadelphia 1950-51, 5, 65, no. 57; Northampton 1952, 6, no. 6; Rotterdam et al. 1958-60, 39, no. 22; cma 1959-60a; cma 1965b; cma 1966-67a; Düsseldorf 1973, 112, under no. 45; cma 1979b; cma 1981a; cma 1982a; Washington 1982-83, 238-39, no. 36; Cleveland 1984-85, 69, no. 38; Cleveland et al. 1989-90, 72-73, no. 31, 75, under no. 32, 78, under no. 35, 80, under no. 36; cma 1991e; cma 1994-95.
- {{cite web|title=David and Goliath (verso)|url=false|author=Claude Lorrain|year=c. 1645|access-date=24 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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