A Rocky Hillside

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Prints and Drawings

1635/1636

Claude Lorrain
French, 1600-1682

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Claude Lorrain
Title: A Rocky Hillside
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.: 1635–1636
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with brown, pink, and green wash, heightened with white gouache, over traces of red chalk, on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 20.9 × 27.6 cm (8 1/4 × 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Regenstein Collection
Reference Number: 1989.192
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Marcel Roethlisberger, “Neun Zeichnungen von Claude Lorrain,” Du 33 (July 1973), p. 516 (ill.).
“From Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26 (2000), pp. 24-27 (ill.).
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 10.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “New Accessions,” December 2, 1989-June 8, 1990.
New York, The Frick Collection, “From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 11; The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present,” September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.

Probably the estate of the artist; possibly sold to Queen Christina of Sweden, 1689 [Roethlisberger 1973]. Don Livio Odescalchi, Duke of Bracciano (died 1711), from 1692 [Roethlisberger 1973]; by descent through the Odescalchi family, to 1957 [Roethlisberger 1973]. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

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