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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Claude. The drawing is of a landscape with a lake to the right, edged by neat rows of trees. Behind the lake the land rises up to a line of mountains or hills. Some grass and plants are drawn in the foreground. The words 'Claudio fecit Soppra il lac di bracciano' are written at the bottom of the drawing.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"14.
CLAUDE
(b. 1600; d. 1682)
VIEW OF THE LAKE OF BRACCIANO
Inscribed 'Claudio fecit Soppra il lac di bracciano'. Collection of Prof. Tancred Borenius. From the Palgrave, Wellesley, and Fairfax Murray Collactions. Pen and sepia and grey wash (grey chiefly on flats to l. of lake and on mountain). 22 x 32.1 cm. (8 5/8 x 12 5/8 in.).
This view of the Lake of Bracciano (as pointed out by Mr. R. R. Tatlock in the Burlington Magazine, Vol. XXXVIII, p. 4) can be compared with a photograph taken from exactly the same point in Santo Bargellini, Etruria Meridionale (Italia Artistica, vol. 48), p. 82. It is remarkable how rarely it is possible so definitely to connect a pure landscape drawing with the actual view it represents, and it is interesting to be able to tie Claude down to definite topography. Every one is forced to admit that the nearer Claude approached nature and the further his ideal conception is distant the more interesting he is. His attitude in this drawing was obviously 'I could make something of this'; fortunately it remains Claude's direct idea of what the landscape looked like. But, by a contradiction less real than apparent, it is when he is most strictly bound to actual forms and contours that the freedom of his design is most apparent.
A. E. P.
[Drawings 1459-1921. A Loan Exhibition, Goupil Gallery, 1922, No. 50.]"
Technique: REPRODUCTION
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Claude, View of the Lake of Bracciano (LC 1131/14). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.105378 | Go to resource |
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