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AFTER CLAUDE GELLÉE, CALLED CLAUDE LORRAIN
Egeria mourning over Numa in a landscape
oil on canvas
1938 x 24 in. (49.2 x 61 cm.)
Provenance
with Lilienfeld Galleries, New York, by 1934.
Ernest Kanzler (1892-1967), Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, by 1939. (according to a label on the reverse)
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 19 April 2002, lot 409 as Follower of Claude Lorrain, 18th Century, where acquired by the present owner.
Exhibited
San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, Exhibition of French Painting from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Day, 8 June-8 July 1934, no. 15.
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Lot Essay

This is a copy after Claude Lorrain's painting, Landscape with the nymph Egeria mourning over Numa, dated 1669 and recorded in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples (see M. Röthlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Paintings, New York, 1979, pp. 409-413, no. LV 175). Claude draws from a story in Ovid's Metamorphoses and depicts the seated Egeria lamenting the death of her husband, Numa, while nymphs of the goddess Diana attempt to console her.

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