Nov 03, 2015 - Sale 2396

Sale 2396 - Lot 340

Price Realized: $ 5,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
CLAUDE GELLÉE, LE LORRAIN
Le Troupeau en marche par un temps orageux.

Etching, circa 1650-51. 163x221 mm; 6 1/2x8 3/4 inches, narrow margins. Second state (a) (of 2). Ex-collection Henry Brodhurst (Lugt 1296, verso); François Debois (Lugt 985, verso); and Alexandre-Pierre-François Robert-Dumesnil, initialed "F.D." and dated 1843 in ink, verso (see Lugt 2200). A brilliant, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce etching. Mannocci 40.