Circle of Claude Lorrain
1600-1682
A Cluster of Buildings above a River
7 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches (181 x 261 mm)
Brush and brown ink on paper.
2009.194
The Joseph F. McCrindle Collection.
Notes
Although this Italianate landscape has been associated with Claude Lorrain and his name is inscribed several times on the back of the mount, it is executed in a manner that had become common in Rome by the middle of the seventeenth century, especially among French and Northern artists. Executed entirely in brush and wash, without a preliminary outline in chalk, this sheet exhibits a loosely structured approach to space. Dark trees along a riverbank in the foreground frame a view to a complex of buildings, with no less than three round towers, on the opposite bank.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, at upper right, "Claude Lor[rain]" and in a different hand, "Claude Lorrain".
Associated names
McCrindle, Joseph F., former owner.
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Classification
Century Drawings
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