Follower of Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain
A wooded landscape with peasants and children dancing
oil on canvas
26 x 32 3/8 in. (66.1 x 82.3 cm.)
Follower of Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain
A wooded landscape with peasants and children dancing
oil on canvas
26 x 32 3/8 in. (66.1 x 82.3 cm.)
with Charles Birch, London, from whom purchased for 30 gns., in 1803, by the following,
George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837), at Petworth House, Sussex, by 1837 (Inventory of Paintings, Sculpture and Books at Petworth House, Property of The Late George, 3rd Earl of Egremont), and by descent.
C.H. Collins Baker, Catalogue of the Petworth Collection of pictures in the possession of Lord Leconfield, London, 1920, p. 119, no. 439, as ‘Herman van Swanevelt’.
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