About the Artwork
A Seaport at Sunset
1643
Claude Gellée
1600-1682
French
Unknown
Oil on copper
Unframed: 16 × 21 inches (40.6 × 53.3 cm) Framed: 22 3/8 × 27 × 2 inches (56.8 × 68.6 × 5.1 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb
42.127
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, lower right: CLAVDIO IV | 1643 ROMA
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Provenance
by 1653-1729, collection Olimpia Giustiniani Barberini [1641-1729] (Rome, Italy)
until 1934, Barberini collection (Rome, Italy)
1934, purchased by (Adolph Loewi on behalf of Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, New York, USA)
1934-1942, sold by (Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, New York, USA)
1942, purchased by Edgar Bancroft Whitcomb [1866-1953] and Anna Scripps Whitcomb [1866-1953] (Detroit, Michigan, USA) as a gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts
1942-present, the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Von Ramdohr, Friedrich Wilhelm Basilius. Ueber Mahlerei und Bildhauerarbeit in Rom für Liebhaber des Schönen in der Kunst, vol 2. Leipzig, 1798, p. 314. [Likely to be one of the two works listed as "two beautiful landscapes by Claude Lorraine."]
Pattison, Mrs. Mark. Claude Lorrain, sa vie et ses oeuvres. Paris, 1884, pp. 39-40, 244, no. 88. [Author is Emilia Francis, Lady Dilke who published under Mrs. Mark Pattison. Painting as in Palazzo Barberini and incorrectly described as on panel, poorly preserved and in octagonal format.]
Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, pp. 23-24, no. 38.
Exh. cat., Palazzo Barberini, Galerie Barberini. Rome, ca. 1900, p. 17, no. 134.
Lafenestre, G. and E. Richtenberger. Rome, les musées, les collections particulières, les palais. Paris, 1905, p. 148, no. 107.
The Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit: Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 84, cat. 86 (ill.).
Le Paysage français de Poussin à Corot. Exh. cat., Palais des Beaux-Arts. Paris, 1925, cat. 116.
Réau, Louis. L'Art Français aux Etats-Unis. Paris, 1926, p. 163.
Five Centuries of Marine Painting. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1942, pp. 21, 23, cat. 74.
Ferry, Dexter and Clyde Burroughs. "The Arts Commission Annual Report for the Year 1942." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 22, no. 5 (February 1943): 34–44, pp. 35, 38, 39.
Richardson, Edgar Preston. "A Seaport at Sunset by Claude Lorrain." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 22, no. 7 (1943): pp. 70–72 (ill.).
Richardson, Edgar Preston, ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, pp. 26–27, no. 477.
Whitcomb, Edgar and Edsel B. Ford, K. T. Keller, William A. Bostick, Robert H. Tannahill, Edgar Preston Richardson, and Dexter M. Ferry Jr. "The Arts Commission Annual Report for the Year 1942: Care of the Collections." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 27, no. 2 (1948): 27–52, p. 34.
Richardson, E.P. Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture given by Edgar B. Whitcomb and Anna Scripps Whitcomb to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1954, p. 73 (ill.).
Röthlisberger, Marcel. Claude Lorrain: the Paintings. New Haven, 1961, vol. 1: pp. 468–469, no. 206, 491–92, vol. 2: fig. 82 (ill.). [dated 1638]
"Classical Landscapes." New York Times Literary Supplement, May 31, 1963, p. 382. [questions attribution to Claude.]
Of Ships and the Sea. Exh. cat., Art Gallery. Vancouver, 1963, unpaginated, no. 7 (ill.).
Art in Italy, 1600–1700. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, p. 40, cat. 22. [as "Coast Scene"]
Röthlisberger, Marcel. "Claude Lorrain in the National Gallery of Art." Report and Studies in the History of Art 3 (1969): 34–57, p. 36.
Vivien, Frances. Poussin and Claude seen from the Archivio Barberini." Burlington Magazine 111 (1969): 719-726, p. 726. [cited in inventories as "Porto di Mare."]
Detroit Institute of Arts Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 103.
Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg. Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art. New York, 1975, pp. 100, 478, 718.
Röthlisberger, M. L'opera completa di Claude Lorrain. Milan, 1975.
Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 103, no. 74 (ill.).
France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections. Exh. cat., Grand Palais. Paris, 1982, p. 358, no. 9 (ill.).
Russell, Diane. Claude Lorrain 1600–1682. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1982, p. 117, cat. 11 (ill.).
Claude Gellée dit Le Lorrain 1600-1682. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. Paris, 1983, pp. 128–129, no. 11 (ill.).
Kitson, Michael. "Tercentenary of Claude Lorrain — II. Washington and Paris." The Burlington Magazine 125, no. 960 (March 1983): 184–187, p. 186.
Repp-Eckert, Anke. "Zum Einfluss von Goffredo Wals Auf Die Künstlerische Entwicklung Claude Lorrains." Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 46/47 (1985–1986): 387–397, p. 396, note 29.
Wissman, F.W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Detroit, 2000, p. 91 (ill.).
Rand, Richard, Antony Griffths and Colleen M. Terry. Claude Lorrain—The Painter as Draftsman. New Haven, 2006, pp. 139, 191, 217, fig. 88 (ill.).
Kilinski, Karl II. Greek Myth and Western Art: The Presence of the Past. Cambridge, 2013, p. 133.
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Claude Gellée, A Seaport at Sunset, 1643, oil on copper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 42.127.
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