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Landscape and Cattle &c. with the Shepherdess, (painting)

Catalog Data

Artist:
Loraine, Claude 1600-1682  Search this
Type:
Paintings
Exhibition Catalogs
Date:
1876
Notes:
Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 127 (Sale info: For Sale).
"Finished with extraordinary and surprising neatness, with a light touch and skilful management of aerial perspective, enriched with figure, cattle, and water, mountains, &c. A beautiful sky, with an uncommon degree of transparency of colouring, and throughout a lovely imitation of nature, with a harmony and power of local colour, surpassed only by him. Painted by Claude Loraine, who was born at Loraine, 1600, died 1682." [P. 21.]
Descriptive Catalogue of Original Cabinet Paintings, now arranged in the Gallery, Doggett's Repository of Arts, entrance at No. 16, Market-Street, and may be viewed every day, from 8 in the morning till sunset; being a truly splendid and valuable Collection of one hundred and sixty-four Cabinet Paintings in elegant frames; selected on the Continent of Europe, at the Expense of thirty thousand dollars, and are warranted to comprise the works of the Great Masters, from the 13th Century to the Present Time.
Topic:
Landscape--Water  Search this
Animal--Cattle  Search this
Landscape--Mountain  Search this
Occupation--Farm--Shepherd  Search this
Figure female  Search this
Landscape--Farm  Search this
Control number:
AECI 03260127
Data Source:
Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_aeci_67814