The wooded banks of a river in the Roman Campagna: two men and three women are shown in the foreground, while three fishermen are fishing with a net from a boat. Etching by F. Vivares, 1741, after Claude Lorraine.
- Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682.
- Date:
- 1741
- Reference:
- 3055162i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
A man and a woman carrying a basket on her head walk across ankle-deep water in a stream flowing into the river. A woman with a basket who has already crossed the stream puts her stockings back on. A seated woman touches a standing man on the shoulder. In the background, a long wooden bridge traverses the river
Publication/Creation
[London] : Published by C. Knapton, 1741.
Physical description
1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 31.1 x 40 cm
Lettering
In the collection of Dr Mead. 3 feet 2 inch wide. 2 feet 5 inch high. Claudio Gillee Lorenese pinxit 1656. Vivares sculp.
References note
Abraham Langford, A catalogue of the genuine and capital collection of pictures, by the most celebrated masters, of that late great and learned physician, Doctor Richard Mead, deceased, London 1754, p. 6 (second day, lot 51)
D. Cecchi, L'opera completa di Claude Lorrain, Milan: Rizzoli, 1975, p. 91, no. 59 (date read as 1636 instead of 1656)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 3055162i
Reproduction note
After a painting composed in the opposite direction. The present print documents it as being in the possession of Dr Richard Mead in 1741. In Mead's sale in 1754 it was described as "Claude Lorraine. A morning" (Langford, loc, cit.). The painting passed in 1928 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, where called "The ford"
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Location Status Access Closed stores