CLAUDE GELLÉE, CALLED CLAUDE LORRAIN (CHAMAGNE 1600-1682 ROME) - photo 1
CLAUDE GELLÉE, CALLED CLAUDE LORRAIN (CHAMAGNE 1600-1682 ROME) - photo 2
CLAUDE GELLÉE, CALLED CLAUDE LORRAIN (CHAMAGNE 1600-1682 ROME) - photo 3

CLAUDE GELLÉE, CALLED CLAUDE LORRAIN (CHAMAGNE 1600-1682 ROME)

Lot 3
05.02.2026 10:00UTC -05:00
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Event locationUSA, New York
ID 1539506
Lot 3 | CLAUDE GELLÉE, CALLED CLAUDE LORRAIN (CHAMAGNE 1600-1682 ROME)
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
CLAUDE GELLÉE, CALLED CLAUDE LORRAIN (CHAMAGNE 1600-1682 ROME)
Rocky landscape with Saint John the Baptist seated by a cliff (recto); A house surrounded by a wall on the banks of a river (verso)
signed ‘Claud/ fecit/ Rom’ (lower center)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, ink framing lines (recto); black chalk, pen and brown ink (verso)
8 ½ x 8 in. (21.5 x 20 cm)




Provenance

Probably Queen Cristina of Sweden (1626-1689), Rome; by inheritance to
Prince Don Livio Odescalchi, Duke of Bracciano (1652-1713), Rome (as part of an album); by descent to
Donato Sanminiatelli (1929-1979) and Maria Odescalchi (b. 1930), Rome (as part of an album).
with Georges Wildenstein, Paris (as part of an album).
Norton Simon (1907-1993), Pasadena (as part of an album).
with Eugene Victor Thaw & Co., New York.



Literature

M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain. The Paintings, I, New York, 1961, p. 259.
M. Roethlisberger, 'Dessins inédits de Claude Lorrain’, L’Œil, no. 78, 1961, p. 56.
M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain. The Wildenstein Album, Paris, 1962, no. 29, ill.
M. Roethlisberger, ‘Les dessins de Claude Lorrain à sujets rares’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, LIX, 1962, p. 158.
M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain. The Drawings, Berkeley, 1968, no. 1023, ill.
M. Roethlisberger, The Claude Lorrain Album in the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1971, no. 55, ill.
M. Roethlisberger, The Claude Lorrain Album in the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art, Princeton, 1973, no. 55.
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