?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
CLAUDE GELLÉE, LE LORRAIN Le Départ pour les Champs.
Etching, circa 1638-41. 130x180 mm; 5 1/4x7 1/4 inches, narrow margins. Third state (C) (of 4), with the number 12 lower left and the diagonal scratch across the distant mountains but before the text in the lower margin. A superb, early, richly-inked impression of this very scarce etching with strong contrasts and crisp, partially inky plate edges.
We have found only 9 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years.
The composition for this etching relates to Claude's (1600-1862) oil painting Landscape with Herdsmen near Tivoli, 1635, which is now in the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. Mannocci 34.
