About the Artwork
Sunrise
1631
Claude Gellée
1600-1682
French
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 30 × 46 1/8 inches (76.2 × 117.2 cm) Framed: 38 1/4 × 53 5/8 × 3 1/8 inches (97.2 × 136.2 × 7.9 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford
41.10
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated, on rock, in center foreground: CLAVDIO IV | 1631
Provenance
Painted for unknown patron (Naples, Italy);Baron William Wyndham Grenville [1759-1834] (Dropmore, Buckinghamshire, England);
by descent to his nephew, George Matthew Fortescue [1791-1877] (Boconnoc, Cornwall, England and Dropmore, Bucks, England);
by descent to his son, John Bevill Fortescue [1850-1938] (Boconnoc, Cornwall, England and Dropmore, Bucks, England);
by 1940, (Mondschein & Co., Ltd., New York, New York, USA and London, England);
1941 purchased by Mr. Edsel B. Ford and Mrs. Eleanor Ford;
1941-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Earlom, Richard. Liber Veritatis; or A Collection of Prints After the Original Designs of Claude Lorrain; in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire. London, 1774, p. 14. [see pl.12, "Naples" refers to this painting]
Smith, John A. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters. London, 1837, vol. 8: p. 200, no. 12. [reference is to print in the Liber Veritatis but mentions it was painted for someone in Naples]
Pattison, Mrs. Mark. Claude Lorrain, sa Vie et ses Oeuvres. Paris, 1884, p. 208, no. 12. [Author is Emilia Francis, Lady Dilke who published under Mrs. Mark Pattison.]
Richardson, Edgar Preston. "Evening by Claude Lorrain." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 20, no. 7 (April 1941): pp. 67–70 (ill.).
Richardson, Edgar Preston. "The Detroit Claude." Art Quarterly 4, no. 2 (1941): pp. 149, 155–156.
Valentiner, Wilhelm. "An Early Work by Claude Lorrain." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 21, no. 7 (April 1942): 58–61, p. 58.
Constable, William George. "The Early Work of Claude Lorrain." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts 42, no. 250 (December 1944): 67–72, pp. 68–70.
Constable, Willam George. "The Early Work of Claude Lorrain." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 26, pt. 2 (1944): pp. 307–308, 310-311.
Richardson, Edgar Preston, ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 26, no. 476.
Cahen, J. "A Propos de Enée Chassant le Cerf sur la Cote de Lybie de Claude Gellée." Bulletin des Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 6, no. 3–4 (September–December 1957): pp. 217, 222, 224–226.
Röthlisberger, Marcel. "Earliest Dated Claude." Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 52, no. 253 (Spring 1957): 50–54, pp. 51–52.
Kitson, Michael and Marcel Röthlisberger. "Claude Lorrain and the Liber Veritatis-I." Burlington Magazine 101, no. 670 (January 1959): 14–25, p. 23.
Knab, Eckhart. "Die Anfange des Claude Lorrain." Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien LVI (1960): pp. 143–144, fig. 178 (ill.).
Röthlisberger, Marcel. Claude Lorrain: The Paintings. New Haven, 1961, vol. 1: pp. 119–120, no. 12, 140; vol. 2: figs. 48, 49 (ill.).
Art in Italy 1600–1700. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, cat. 21 (ill.).
Röthlisberger, Marcel. "Additions to Claude." The Burlington Magazine 110, no. 780 (March 1968): 114–119, 121, p. 116.
Röthlisberger, Marcel. Claude Lorrain: the Drawings. Berkeley, 1968, vol. 1: pp. 116-117.
Röthlisberger, Marcel. "Claude Lorrain in the National Gallery of Art." Report and Studies in the History of Art 3 (1969): 34–57, pp. 44, 56, note 21, fig. 13 (ill.).
Knab, Eckhart. "Observations about Claude, Angeluccio, Dughet, and Poussin." Master Drawings 9, no.4 (Winter 1971): 367–383, 420–432, p. 381, note 24.
France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections. Exh. cat., Grand Palais, et al. Paris, 1982, p. 358, no. 8 (ill.).
Russel, Diane. Claude Lorrain 1600–1682. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1982, p. 110.
Claude Gellée dit Le Lorrain 1600–1682. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. Paris, 1983, p. 121.
Bandes, Susan J. Pursuits and Pleasures: Baroque Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Dennos Museum Center, Kalamazoo Art Museum, Kresge Art Museum, Muskegon Museum of Art. Battle Creek, 2003, pp. 26, 27 (ill.).
Goldfarb, Hilliard T. "Landscape with Shepherd and Shepherdess: Toward a Reading fo the Dartmouth Claude and its Implications for the Liber Veritatis." Artibus et Historiae 31, no. 61 (2010): 159–168, pp. 162, 165.
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Claude Gellée, Sunrise, 1631, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford, 41.10.
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