Details
| Artist | Claude Gellée, French, 1600-1682 |
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| Date | 1676 |
| Medium | pen and brown ink with brush and gray/gray-brown wash and black chalk, heightened with white, on blue antique laid paper |
| Dimensions | Image: 9 7/16 × 11 15/16 inches (24 × 30.3 cm) Sheet: 9 7/16 × 11 15/16 inches (24 × 30.3 cm) |
| Credit Line | Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund |
| Accession Number | 34.130 |
| Department | Prints, Drawings & Photographs |
| Not On View |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
| Marks | Stamp, in black ink, lower left: T.H. (Lugt 2432, Thomas Hudson) Watermark: [beast rampant in shield, similar to Briquet 7628 or 1354] |
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| Inscriptions | Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower right: 1676 Claude [partially trimmed] Inscribed, in pencil, lower center: 22 Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower left: CARTHA / GO [underscored] |
Provenance
Thomas Hudson (London, England);
1934, Charles Albert de Burlet (Berlin, Germany);
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1934, Charles Albert de Burlet (Berlin, Germany);
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Bulletin of the DIA (1934): p. 57. [as Harbour Scene.]
"A Claude Lorrain Masterpiece at the Hallsborough Gallery." Connoiseur 152, no. 164 (April 1963): p. 279 (ill.).
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, pp. 164-65, no. 71.
Hentzen, Alfred. "Claude Lorrain's Aeneas und Dido in Karthage." Jahrbuch Der Hamburger Kunstammlungen 10 (1965): pp. 13-26 (fig. 5).
Roethlisberger, Marcel. Claude Lorrain: The Paintings 1. New Haven, 1961, p. 440, no. LV186, no. 1 and 11 (fig. 307) (as "View of Carthage with Dido and Aeneas and Their Suite Leaving for the Hunt").
Roethlisberger, Marcel. Claude Lorrain: The Drawings 1. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, p. 401, no. 1089 (as "View of Carthage with Dido and Aeneas").
"A Claude Lorrain Masterpiece at the Hallsborough Gallery." Connoiseur 152, no. 164 (April 1963): p. 279 (ill.).
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, pp. 164-65, no. 71.
Hentzen, Alfred. "Claude Lorrain's Aeneas und Dido in Karthage." Jahrbuch Der Hamburger Kunstammlungen 10 (1965): pp. 13-26 (fig. 5).
Roethlisberger, Marcel. Claude Lorrain: The Paintings 1. New Haven, 1961, p. 440, no. LV186, no. 1 and 11 (fig. 307) (as "View of Carthage with Dido and Aeneas and Their Suite Leaving for the Hunt").
Roethlisberger, Marcel. Claude Lorrain: The Drawings 1. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, p. 401, no. 1089 (as "View of Carthage with Dido and Aeneas").
