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[Landscape with dancing figures]
- Title
- [Landscape with dancing figures] [graphic] / engraved by Willm. Wilson after that capital picture of Claud Lorrain, in the Pamphili Palace at Rome.
- Author
- Wilson, William, active 1750-1790.
- Publication
- [17--?]
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- Additional Authors
- Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682.
- Description
- 1 print : engraving, b&w; 32 x 42 cm., plate mark 31 x 41 cm.
- Summary
- Depiction of a pastoral landscape with a group of picnickers, dressed in simple garments evocative of the antique world, at foreground right. A couple dances at the center of this group, the woman playing a tambourine. A boy herds cows at foreground left; in the middle distance is the water mill of the title. In the background are a city and a distant mountain.
- Alternative Title
- [Landscape with the marriage of Isaac and Rebecca]
- [Mill]
- Genre/Form
- Landscape paintings.
- Reproductive prints.
- Note
- Title from the website of the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome: http://www.doriapamphilj.it/ukdanza.asp.
- Alternative titles for the original painting are: Landscape with the marriage of Isaac and Rebecca, and The mill.
- At lower left: Size of the picture 6 ft. 6 i[nches], wide, by 4 ft. 11 i[nches] high.
- Source (note)
- Lincoln Kirstein.
- Biography (note)
- Reproductive engraving of an oil painting by Claude Lorrain, dated 1647, held by the Galleria Doria Pamphilj in Rome, Italy. Another version of this painting is held by the National Gallery in London under the title Landscape with the marriage of Isaac and Rebecca (1648). Claude Lorrain, also known by his real name Claude Gellée, is probably the most revered landscape artist of the Baroque period. William Wilson is described in the British Museum's online catalog as a reproductive engraver active ca. 1750-1790.
- Call Number
- *MGZFX Wil W Lan 1
- OCLC
- 825122381
- Author
- Wilson, William, active 1750-1790. Engraver
- Title
- [Landscape with dancing figures] [graphic] / engraved by Willm. Wilson after that capital picture of Claud Lorrain, in the Pamphili Palace at Rome.
- Imprint
- [17--?]
- Biography
- Reproductive engraving of an oil painting by Claude Lorrain, dated 1647, held by the Galleria Doria Pamphilj in Rome, Italy. Another version of this painting is held by the National Gallery in London under the title Landscape with the marriage of Isaac and Rebecca (1648). Claude Lorrain, also known by his real name Claude Gellée, is probably the most revered landscape artist of the Baroque period. William Wilson is described in the British Museum's online catalog as a reproductive engraver active ca. 1750-1790.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Source
- Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682. ArtistKirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996. Donor
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFX Wil W Lan 1