Landscape with St Philip Baptising the Eunuch
Claude Lorraine
- Art Funded
- 1984
- Dimensions
- 85 x 141 cm
- Vendor
- Allandale 1949 Settlement
Claude has created a pastoral idyll by soft lighting, a more naturalistic landscape and a fragile quality.
The subject merges into the foreground and does not dominate. Inscribed: 'S. Filippo battesta Lenucco della Regina'.
Provenance
Painted for Cardinal Fabrizio Spada; in Rome until 1798; Sloane, 1802 in England by 1803-4; William Beckford by 1837; John Smith of Bond St by 1842; Monro of Novar by 1854, sale 1878; W.B. Beamont, by descent to Lord Allandale.