Follower of Claude Lorrain

Literature

Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 22

Provenance

Jean-Joseph-Pierre-Augustin Lapeyrière (1779-1831, known as Augustin Lapeyrière, then Augustin de Lapeyrière)
his sale, Henry at Galerie Le Brun, Paris, 19 April 1825 and days following (originally scheduled for 14 March and days following), nr. 72
Chevalier Sébastien Érard (1752-1831), Château de la Muette, near the Bois de Boulogne, Paris
his estate sale, at his residence by Lacoste and Coutelier, 7-14 August 1832 (originally scheduled for 23 April and days following), nr. 183, bought by Dougas
William Williams Hope (1802-1855), Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, and Paris
his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11 May 1858, nr. 1
bought for Baron James de Rothschild (1792-1868)
his son, Baron Gustave Salomon de Rothschild (1829-1911)
his daughter Aline de Rothschild Sassoon (1865-1909)
her husband Sir Edward Sassoon (1856-1912)
their daughter, Sybil Sassoon (1894-1989), who married in 1913 George Horatio Charles, 5th marquess of Cholmondeley, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, sold 1939 to Wildenstein
with Wildenstein & Co., Paris, New York, and London, sold to Kress Foundation
Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1946 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1946.7.12

Other works by Claude Lorrain

Seaport with Ulysses Restituting Chryseis to Her Father Chryses
8th or 19th century

Landscape seen from Tivoli
1651

Landscape near Rome with a view of the Ponte Molle
1645

Harbor at Sunset
late 17th century

Landscape with Merchants
c. 1629