The Most Beautiful Edifices in the Roman Countryside

  • French
  • Claude Gellée, French, 1600-1682

Etching and engraving printed in black on laid paper

  • plate: 13 7/8 x 18 3/4 in. 35.2 x 47.6 cm sheet: 19 1/2 x 27 1/8 in. 49.5 x 68.8 cm

Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund

F72.283.114

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

In plate, lower left: Claude Lorain pinxit.; lower center: Vue des plus beaux Edifices dans une campagne de Rome.; lower right: Naudet excudit.; bottom left: Se vend a Paris, chez Decrouan Md. d'Estampes, Rue de la Bucherie, No. 9.; bottom right: D'apres le Tableau Original de Claude Loraine.; illegible pencil notation, lower left corner; lower right corner: E. Cole; in brown ink, lower right corner: N20

Kennedy Gallery and Edith Cole Silberstein

French; after Claude Gellée, The Most Beautiful Edifices in the Roman Countryside, Etching and engraving printed in black on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, F72.283.114.