Auction: European Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2542BLocation: BostonDate / Time: April 09, 2011 10:00AM
Description:
Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain (French, 1600-1682)
Lot of Seven Unframed Etchings: Le troupeau en marche; The harbour, with a large tower; Le Bouvier; The flight into Egypt; Via Sacra detto Campo. Vacino di Roma; The Wooden Bridge; and Goat Herd
All posthumous 18th or 19th-century printings.
Le Troupeau, Le Bouvier, and Via Sacra signed and dated in the plates, others unsigned, many titled in pencil on the mat.
Plate sizes to 7 3/4 x 10 in. (19.6 x 25.5 cm).. Condition: Many sheets trimmed at or close to images, most with rippling, soiling, toning, nicks, and wear to edges. Herdand Sacra mounted to supporting paper at the corners.
Estimate $500-700