Claude Lorrain
Landscape with Merchants
c. 162997.2 x 143.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left on gunwale of boat in brown paint: CLAVDIO o I_Vo16_9[R?]OM_
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 412
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 19
Provenance
Robert Trevor Hampden, 1st viscount Hampden (1705-1783), by 1771
by inheritance to his son, Thomas Trevor Hampden, 2nd viscount Hampden (1746-1824)
probably by inheritance to his brother, John Trevor Hampden, 3rd viscount Hampden (1749-1824)
probably by inheritance to his wife, Harriet, viscountess Hampden (née Burton, died 1829)
by inheritance to Jane Maria, viscountess Hampden (second wife of the 2nd Viscount, died 1833), either from her husband, his brother the 3rd viscount, or the 3rd viscount's wife
Hampden sale, Christie & Manson, London, 19 April 1834, nr. 85
purchased by Mr. Brown
sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18 December 1920, nr. 38
with Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, by 1926
with Wildenstein & Co., Paris, New York, and London
sold 1947 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1952 to NGA
Other works by Claude Lorrain
Coastal Landscape with Aces and Galathea
1657
1657
Landscape near Rome with a view of the Ponte Molle
1645
1645
A seaport
1644
1644
View of Delphi with a Procession
1673
1673
The Judgment of Paris
1645/46
1645/46