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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Claude. There are two tree trunks in the bottom left corner which bend out of the edge of the drawing, and another just behind these whose branches curve across the top of the drawing. There are leaves on the branches, and a few smaller plants with leaves are growing up from the ground alongside the trees.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"13.
CLAUDE
(b. 1600; d. 1682)
STUDY OF TREES
British Museum, O.0.7.-171. Payne Knight Collection. Brush and sepia over black chalk on pink washed paper. 26.3 x 20.1 cm. (10 5/16 x 7 7/8 in.).
This does not strike one as direct from nature. From the position which it occupies to one side of the paper, from the typical way the branch is silhouetted dark against the sky, it recalls the foreground trees which bound Claude's landscapes on either side. It is an ideal tree, or an actual tree so fortuitously like Claude's ideal as to be counted to him rather than to nature.
A. E. P
[Engraved in aquatint by F. C. Lewis as frontispiece to Part IV of his reproductions of Claude drawings in the British Museum, 1837.
Mrs. Mark Pattison (Lady Dilke), Claude Lorrain. 1884. (Catalogue) p. 266.]"
Technique: REPRODUCTION
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Claude, Study of Trees (LC 1131/13). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.105377 | Go to resource |
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