Landscape with Peasants Returning with Their Herds
Artist
Claude Lorrain
French, 1600–1682
Datecirca 1637
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions29 7/8 x 40 in. (75.9 x 101.6 cm)
Frame: 39 5/8 x 48 3/4 in. (100.6 x 123.8 cm)
Frame: 39 5/8 x 48 3/4 in. (100.6 x 123.8 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.125
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesJ. Smith, Catalogue Raisonné VIII (1837), no. 20.
Mark Pattison, Mrs. Claude (Paris, 1884), no. 20.
Christie’s Catalogue (London, February 19, 1910).
Georges Isarlo, Arts (April 1949), no. 20, as a lost painting.
W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 153, illus. (b-w).
M. Röthlisberger, Claude Lorrain, I, II (New Haven, 1961), Vol. I, no. 20, Vol. II, illus. fig. 63.
The Age of Louis XIII (exhibition catalogue) (Jacksonville, FL: Cummer Gallery of Art, 1969), cat. no. 34, illus. (b-w).
Claude Lorrain: A Tercentenary Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982), cat. no. 8, illus.
Marcel Röthlisberger and Doretta Cecchi, L’Opera Completa di Claude Lorrain (Milan, 1975), cat. no. 78, illus. IX.
Galleries nationales du Grand Palais, La peinture françaises du XVII siècle dans les collections Américaines (1982), 379 (52.9.125 is included in inventory of 17th century French paintings in American collections).
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 145.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 124.
Joseph P. Covington, entry for Landscape with Peasants Returning with Their Herds, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 140, illus. (color).
Albert Blankert, et al, Het zuiden tegemoet: De landschappen van Herman van Swanevelt, 1603–1655 (Woerden: Stadtsmuseum Woerden, 2007) (exhibition catalogue), mentioned 13, illus. (color) 17 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Stephen D. Borys, et al, The Splendor of Ruins in French Landscape Painting, 1630–1800 (exhibition catalogue) (Oberlin, OH: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, 2005), cat. no. 13, illus. (color), also discussed 90–93.
Joseph P. Covington, entry for Landscape with Peasants Returning with Their Herds, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 294, illus. (color) 295.
Exhibition HistoryJacksonville, FL, Cummer Gallery of Art, "The Age of Louis XIII," October 29-December 7, 1969; St. Petersburg, FL, Museum of Fine Arts, January 5-February 8, 1970, cat. no. 34, illus. (b-w).
Durham, NC, Duke University, "Molière Festival Exhibition," February 21-March 18, 1973.
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, "Claude Lorrain: A Tercentenary Exhibition," October 17, 1982-January 2, 1983; Grand Palais, February 15-May 16, 1983, cat. no. 8.
Oberlin, OH, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, "The Splendor of Ruins in French Landscape Painting, 1630-1800," March 19-June 19, 2005; Houston, TX, Museum of Fine Arts, July 17-October 16, 2005, cat. no. 13, illus. (color), also discussed 89-90.
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