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The herd at the watering-place

Maker

(artist)
1604-1682

(etcher)
1604-1682

Title

Date of Production

(?) 1662

Medium

printed on chine collé

Dimensions

Height: 15.7 cm
Width: 21.8 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.6154

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Etching allows the artist a freedom of line akin to drawing, making possible the spontaneous effects achieved here. Claude’s experimental approach to the medium is aptly demonstrated by this freely-handled pastoral scene. Lines of varying thicknesses are employed to render different textures and effects. The prominent margin is an unusual feature, suggesting the design was made on the back of another etched plate. The Witt Library collection includes a substantial group of original etchings by Claude.

Notes

The date on the etching has generally been read as 1635, but recent scholarship questions the legibility of the final two digits and argues for a much later date. Stylistically, the etching has much in common with the etchings of the early 1660s, and is also thought to have been made on the back of another plate - possibly Mercury and Argus of 1662.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Summer Showcase - Unfinished, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2015-20/09/2015

Purpose and Process: British and French Printmaking 1600 - 1900, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/05/2014-20/06/2014

Literature

Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape
Fig. p. p. 205-206 no. 129
discussion of the etching

The Etchings of Claude Lorrain
Fig. p. Mannocci 16.i

Le Peintre-Graveur Français, 11 vols
Fig. p. R-D.4

Inscriptions

Inscription: CLAUDE //

Inscription: L.M. 16 First State //

Inscription: C. 4 CLAU fec 1635(?) //

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