A Wooded River Landscape with Jacob, Laban, and His Daughters

Prints and Drawings

1661

Claude Lorrain
French, 1600-1682

Claude Lorraine was lured from his northern birthplace, in the French province of Lorraine, to the warmth of Italy, and he made the landscape of Italy his primary focus in paintings, prints, and drawings.
This sun-drenched landscape with a Roman aqueduct in the background is used as a setting for the story from the book of Genesis in which Jacob offers his flocks to Laban in return for the hand of his youngest daughter, Rachel.

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Artist: Claude Lorrain
Title: A Wooded River Landscape with Jacob, Laban, and His Daughters
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1661
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and black, brown and gray wash, and black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "CLAUDIO (?) à ROMA/1661"; inscribed recto, lower right on mount, in graphite: "16 x 19 1/2…"
Dimensions: 20.1 × 30.2 cm (7 15/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.106
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Tancred Borenius, “Old Master Drawings in the Collection of Viscount Lascelles,” Apollo 1 (1925), p. 194 (ill.).
Tancred Borenius, Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings at Harewood House (Oxford, 1936), p. 52,
cat. 90.
Marcel Röthlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings 1 (California, 1968), p. 313, cat. 834 (ill.).
Marcel Röthlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Paintings 1 (Hacker, 1979), p. 323.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago,”Master Drawings 38: 3 (Fall 2000), pp. 246–47, fig. 4.

Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts, “Exposition du paysage français: De Poussin à Corot,” 1925, cat. 461.
London, Magnasco Society, Loan Exhibition, 1928, cat. 38.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Old Master Drawings from American Collections,” 1976, pp. 130–31, cat. 145, cat. by Ebria Feinblatt.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gifts of Lifetime,” 1998–99, checklist 16.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 46-47, cat. 20 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection”, March 15 - June 15, 2014.

Given by Colnaghi, London, to Henry George Charles Lascelles (1882–1947), 6th Earl of Harewood, 1922; by descent; sold, Christie’s, London, June 25, 1968, lot 74, to Robert M. Light, Boston, for Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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