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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing attributed to Claude. The original drawing was in red chalk and it shows a tall tree to the left of centre, and another tree that has split and bent over towards the right edge. Through the arch that the split tree creates can be seen a church. There are more trees in the background.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"No. 36
ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE
A BROKEN TREE
Collection of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth. Red chalk.
29.6 x 21.6 cm. (11 5/8 x 8 1/2 in.).
This fine study has been traditionally ascribed to Claude, but is unlike him in design, handling and convention. SO far as it is known, he never made drawings in red chalk alone. This medium was a favourite with Guercino for figure studies, and though its use for landscape is unusual with him, his landscape studies in pen and bistre have essential characteristics in common with the present drawing. Such are the horizontal strokes filling the foreground and contrasting with the upright lines of the tree; the low horizon and empty sky; the acute angle made by branches and stem; and the motive of the broken tree, paralleled in known drawings by Guercino. All these things are unlike Claude, who dwells less on the tracery of trees than on their depth and breadth of shade, and who prefers more rounded forms and a broken foreground.
LAURENCE BINYON."
Technique: REPRODUCTION
Technique: collotype (print)
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing attributed to Claude, A Broken Tree (1932.73/36). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.105158 | Go to resource |
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