Follower of Claude Lorrain

Literature

Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 21

Provenance

Thomas Emmerson (died 1955), London, sold 1830 through John Smith (1781-1855), London to Vernon
George John Vernon, 5th baron Vernon (1803-1866), Sudbury Hall, Derby
possibly Vernon sale, Christie & Manson, London, 1831, sold to Norton
Brook Greville
his sale, Christie & Manson, London, 30 April 1836, nr. 73
with William Seguier, London
Mary Louisa Whyte (Mrs. Mark Anthony Whyte, died 1853), Barrow Hill, Rocester, Staffordshire
by inheritance with the house to her niece, Louisa Jane Finch, probably by 1870
by inheritance with the house to her stepson, Captain Arthur Finch Dawson, by 1879
Dawson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 14 December 1928, nr. 122
with P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London
on consignment or joint account 1931 with M. Knoedler & Co., London, New York, and Paris
acquired before 1941 by R. Horace Gallatin (1871-1948), New York
gift 1949 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1949.1.8

Other works by Claude Lorrain

The Herdsman
17th or 18th century

Landscape near Rome with a view of the Ponte Molle
1645

Landscape with Merchants
c. 1629

A seaport
1644

View of Delphi with a Procession
1673