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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    View of the Famous Chestnut Tree of Mount Etna, called Centum Cavalli by Claude-Louis Chatelet
    Claude-Louis Chatelet. View of the Famous Chestnut Tree of Mount Etna, called Centum Cavalli, 1784. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00002447

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    View of the Famous Chestnut Tree of Mount Etna, called Centum Cavalli

    by Claude-Louis Chatelet

    Exhibition history

    South Bend, Ind., Notre Dame University Art Gallery, "18th Century France," 1972, cat. 20. Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, "French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections," 1972, cat. 26, by Pierre Rosenberg.

    Publications

    Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), p. 17, no. 1B8.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Claude-Louis Chatelet / French, 1753-1795
    Date
    1784
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on buff laid paper
    Dimensions
    23.3 × 35.2 cm (9 3/16 × 13 7/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    ink or chalk wash
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Tillie C. Cohn Fund Income #2
    Accession no.
    1967.381

    Provenance

    Germain Seligmann, New York [his stamp; not in Lugt]; sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1967.

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    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

    Source: The Art Institute of Chicago Open Access (CC0)

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    Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

    Open-access museum record · AT-00002447

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