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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 24, 2008 | Sotheby's | New York | Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture Session 1 | 45 | $****** - ****** | An evening landscape with Mercury and Battus |
paintings
74 x 98 cm (29.13 x 38.58 in)
oil on canvas
Painted in 1654 for 'Monsieur Mierelle' according to the inscription on the corresponding drawing in Claude's Liber Veritatis
Lord George Augustus Cavendish (d. 1794), Holker Hall, Cark-in-Cartmel, Lancashire by 1777
His nephew Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington
His grandson William, 2nd Earl of Burlington and later 7th Duke of Devonshire (d. 1858)
His grandson, Victor Cavendish, who on succeeding as 9th Duke in 1908 made over Holker to his brother Lord Richard Cavendish, by whom sold, London, Christie's, December 12, 1930, lot 38, for £199 to Huggins
Acquired by an English private collector, from Huggins, until 1958
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London, Sotheby's, July 13, 1977, lot 9
With L. Koetser, Zurich
Deder collection, Switzerland
With P. & D. Colnaghi Ltd., London, their stock number 15, until 1979
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Private Collector"), London, Sotheby's, July 8, 1999, lot 86, where acquired by the present owner.
Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art; Paris, Grand Palais, Claude Lorrain: A Tercentenary Exhibition, October 17, 1982 - May 16, 1983, cat. no. 42.
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, vol. VIII, London 1837, pp. 262-263, cat. no. 131; G.F. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London 1857, p. 422; M. Stephens, "The private Collections of England: XXXI Holker Hall", in The Athenaeum, no. 2601, September 1, 1877, p. 281; M. Pattison (Lady Dilke), Claude Lorrain, Paris 1884, pp. 77, 230, cat. no. 3; G. Isarlo, in Arts, April 22, 1949, p. 8; M. Röthlisberger, in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, April 1960, p. 217, reproduced p. 211; M. Röthlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Paintings, London 1961, pp. 317-318, cat. no. 131, reproduced vol. II, fig. 226; M. Röthlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings, London 1968, vol. I, p. 279, under cat. no. 732; M. Röthlisberger & D. Cecchi, L'opera completa di Claude Lorrain, Milan 1975, p. 112, cat. no. 199, reproduced on p. 113 and in color plate XL; M. Kitson, Claude Lorrain: Liber Veritatis, London (British Museum) 1978, pp. 132-133, under cat. no. 131; H.D. Russell, in Claude Lorrain. 1600-1682, exhibition catalogue, Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1983, p. 170, cat. no. 42.
