Object number2023.9.2
La Tempête
Date1630
Artist
Claude Gellée (Claude Lorrain)
(French, 1604-1682, active Italy)
CultureFrench
MediumEtching on laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 8 x 10 9/16 in. (20.3 x 26.8 cm)
Plate: 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm)
Matted: 18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
Plate: 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm)
Matted: 18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Francis Woolsey and Helen Silkman Bronson, class of 1924, Fund
On View
Not on viewPeriod17th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn recto in image, printed lower left corner: Claude Jelle; initialed lower center in image: Cl
InscribedOn recto in image, printed lower left corner: [signature] in et fec; lower center in image: [initialed] Inv
Catalogue raisonnéBlum 1; Mannocci 6 IVA/VII; Russell 4 IV/VIBibliographyMannocci, Lino. The Etchings of Claude Lorrain (catalogue raisonné). New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988; Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur français, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française. Ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch.. Reprint (11 vols. in 6): no. 5; Russell, Diane. Claude Lorrain, 1600-1682. Exh cat, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1982: no. 4.ProvenancePurchased from James A. BergquistDescriptionComposed of minute black lines is a scene of rough waters against a shoreline with two large ships and two smaller boats in the water. The boat in the foreground has three human figures with paddles. Trees are visible in the left half of the composition and there are barrels in the foreground on the left side.
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