Live Auction 18953Italian Drawings From The Robert Landolt Collection
Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain (Champagne 1600-1682 Rome)
Lot 77

Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain (Champagne 1600-1682 Rome)

A herdsman with two cows

Closed8 December 2020

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Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain (Champagne 1600-1682 Rome)
A herdsman with two cows
pen and brown ink
4 ¾ x 7 3/8 in. (11.9 x 18.6 cm)

Probably Queen Christina of Sweden (1625-1713);
Prince Livio Odescalchi (d. 1689), Rome (the album of 64 drawings recorded in the inventory prepared at his death, dating from 29 November 1713), and then by descent.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 20 November 1957, lot 67 (an album of 64 drawings, £2500 to Hans Calmann).
with Hans Calmann, London, 1958, from whom acquired by Robert Landolt.

Specialist note


Part of a dismembered sketchbook of sixty-four sheets once in the possession of Prince Livio Odescalchi and named the ‘animal album’ by Marcel Roethlisberger, this study of a peasant and his two cows can be compared to a number of other drawings in which the animals – cattle, goats and dogs – are more often than not depicted in profile, and which Claude is thought to have made in the Roman campagna in the years 1635-1645 (Roethlisberger, op. cit., nos. 215-222, ill.).