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The Country Dance (small plate)


La Danse sous les arbres
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French (active in Rome), 1600–1682)
about 1637

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 13.6 x 19.5 cm (5 3/8 x 7 11/16 in.)(trimmed on the platemark, with thread margins in places)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP4321
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robert-Dumesnil 10; Mannocci 19 iii(?)/VII
Marks Verso, bottom center, stamped in blue ink, the mark of Carl Schlösser, Elberfeld (1827-1884)(Lugt 636); verso, bottom left, stamped in red ink, the mark of Henry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(Lugt 1309); verso, lower left, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Harvey D. Parker Collection (Lugt 1870)
ProvenanceCarl Schlösser, Elberfeld (1827-1884)(Lugt 636); Henry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(Lugt 1309); purchased by MFA November 1897