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
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
Details
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.