Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011186Pastoral Scene with Classical Figures
About the Artwork
Claude Lorrain changed the direction of European landscape painting by opening up vistas that fade into either morning or evening sun. A prolific draftsman, he emphasized the tranquil and idyllic nature of the Roman countryside.
Provenance
Estate of the artist; to Queen Christina of Sweden, Rome (traditional provenance); Cardinal Decio Azzolini, Rome; -1960: Don Livio Odescalchi, Duke of Bracciano, Rome; by descent, possibly through the Polish and Swiss domiciles of the family, until 1960; 1960-1968: with George Wildenstein, Paris, "The Wildenstein Album," folio 27; by descent to Daniel Wildenstein; 1968-1982: Norton Simon, Pasadena; 1982: with Eugene Victor Thaw, New York. 1982: sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1982
Exhibition history
The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983). National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1989-January 28, 1990). French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995). Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Claude Lorrain (French, 1604–1682)
- Date
- c. 1640–45
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash over graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 19.2 x 25.8 cm (7 9/16 x 10 3/16 in.); Image: 19 x 25.4 cm (7 1/2 x 10 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Accession no.
- 1982.13
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