The Tempest (La Tempête)

1630

Claude Lorrain

Artist, French, 1604/1605 - 1682

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 12.8 × 17.7 cm (5 1/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 13.5 × 18.1 cm (5 5/16 × 7 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.128.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mannocci 6, IV A (of /B)/VII

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Grégoire Soutzo, [1815 - 1869] Paris (Lugt 2341); (James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur français, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française. Ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch.. Reprint (11 vols. in 6): no. 5

1982

  • Russell, Diane. _Claude Lorrain, 1600-1682. Exh cat, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1982: no. 4.

1988

  • Mannocci, Lino. The Etchings of Claude Lorrain (catalogue raisonné). New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988

Inscriptions

lower left in image: Claude Jelle in et fec; lower center in imge: Cl Inv

Watermarks

single encircled fleur-de-lys, surmounted by a crown

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