About the Artwork
Seaport with the Large Tower
between 1635 and 1636
Claude Gellée
1600-1682
French
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Image: 5 × 7 1/2 inches (12.7 × 19.1 cm) Sheet (no visible plate mark): 5 1/8 × 7 1/2 inches (13 × 19.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S295
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in plate, lower left edge: 9 Inscribed, in pencil, verso: R. D. 13, II oder III Inscribed, in pencil, verso: RD No 13 2 = tres belle epreuve | avant l'inscript (No 44, p. 5).; frag 35; 3/6
Stamp, verso: Scripps (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) 1882 [date added in ink]
Provenance
Scott Collection;1882, (H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, New York, USA).
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Claude Gellée, Seaport with the Large Tower, between 1635 and 1636, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S295.
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