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Italian Landscape

c. 1630

Claude Lorrain

(French, 1604–1682)
France, 17th century
oil on canvas
Framed: 126.5 x 162.5 x 5 cm (49 13/16 x 64 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 97.5 x 134.2 cm (38 3/8 x 52 13/16 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1946.73
Location: Not on view

Description

Although French by birth, Claude Lorrain spent his entire working career in Rome. He revolutionized the art of landscape painting by filling his harmoniously ordered scenes (inspired by the campagna, the countryside around Rome) with a golden, hazy light. Painted early in Lorrain's career, Italian Landscape shows a wide, sweeping vista with a wooded hill topped by a structure resembling an ancient Roman temple. The left side of the picture is dark, but the foreground sweeps away in a curve to the right that leads off into an increasingly luminous distance.
  • Earls of Effingham, England (last owner, H.A. Gordon, fourth Earl of Effingham);
    private collection, England;
    [Thomas Agnew, London];
    [Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1946.
  • Francis, Henry S. “‘Roman Campagna near Tivoli’ by Claude Gellée de Lorrain.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 33, no. 10 (December 1946): 178–180. Mentioned: p. 178-180; Reproduced: p. 174 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 482 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 118 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 118 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 172 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Mentioned: p. 72-74; Reproduced: p. 73
    Ditner, David C. “Claude and the Ideal Landscape Tradition in Great Britain.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 4 (April 1983): 147–163. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 149-151, fig. 3 www.jstor.org
    Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952. Reproduced: p. 30 archive.org
  • Tokyo: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo "Claude Lorrain and the Ideal Landscape" 9/5 - 12/6/98, p. 61, no. 26.
    Claude Lorrain and the Ideal Landscape. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (organizer) (September 15-December 6, 1998).
    Washington D.C, National Gallery of Art, October 17, 1982-January 2, 1983: "Claude Lorrain: A Tercenterary Exhibition," cat. no. 8, repr. pp. 112-113.
    Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, March 7-April 13, 1952: " Exhibition Landscape in Europe from the XV century to the Present," cat. p. 18, repr. p. 17. (Title of catalogue: Six Centuries of Landscape).
    Grand Rapid (Michigan) Art Gallery, Dec. 1-Jan. 2, 1949: "Old Masters from Midwestern Museums," no catalog.
    New York, Wildenstein & Co., May 8-june 1, 1946: "A Loan Exhibition of French Painting of the Time of Louis XIII," (to aid reconstruction of University of Library of Caen, France), cat. no. 10, plate 10.
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