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Harbor Scene with Rising Sun


Le Soleil levant
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French (active in Rome), 1600–1682)
1634

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 13.7 x 20.6 cm (5 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.)
Platemark: 13.1 x 19.9 cm (5 3/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Gordon Abbott
Accession Number21.10784
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robert-Dumesnil 15; Mannocci 15, indeterminate state, possibly an intermediate state between iv/viii and v(A)/viii (the number "11" appears in the left margin; there is no evidence of the date "1634" in the lower margin; the sun is clearly visible)
Marks Verso, bottom left-center, stamped in black ink, the mark of Paul Davidsohn, Berlin (born 1839)(Lugt 654); verso, bottom right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenancePaul Davidsohn, Berlin (born 1839)(Lugt 654); his sale, Leipzig, C. G. Boerner, CXXX, November 22-26, 1920, lot 42; Gutekunst & Klipstein; from whom purchased December 31, 1921