Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005736A Wooded River Landscape with Jacob, Laban, and His Daughters
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "CLAUDIO (?) à ROMA/1661"; inscribed recto, lower right on mount, in graphite: "16 x 19 1/2…"
Provenance
Given by Colnaghi, London, to Henry George Charles Lascelles (1882–1947), 6th Earl of Harewood, 1922; by descent; sold, Christie's, London, June 25, 1968, lot 74, to Robert M. Light, Boston, for Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.
Exhibition history
Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts, "Exposition du paysage français: De Poussin à Corot," 1925, cat. 461. London, Magnasco Society, Loan Exhibition, 1928, cat. 38. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Old Master Drawings from American Collections," 1976, pp. 130–31, cat. 145, cat. by Ebria Feinblatt. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of Lifetime," 1998–99, checklist 16. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 46-47, cat. 20 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection", March 15 - June 15, 2014.
Publications
Tancred Borenius, “Old Master Drawings in the Collection of Viscount Lascelles,” Apollo 1 (1925), p. 194 (ill.). Tancred Borenius, Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings at Harewood House (Oxford, 1936), p. 52, cat. 90. Marcel Röthlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings 1 (California, 1968), p. 313, cat. 834 (ill.). Marcel Röthlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Paintings 1 (Hacker, 1979), p. 323. Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago,”Master Drawings 38: 3 (Fall 2000), pp. 246–47, fig. 4.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Claude Lorrain / French, 1600-1682
- Date
- 1661
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and black, brown and gray wash, and black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
- Dimensions
- 20.1 × 30.2 cm (7 15/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1998.106
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