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Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain (French, 1604/5–1682)
Title
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Artist
Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain (French, 1604/5–1682)
Date
c. 1640
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
30 × 36 1/4 in. (76.2 × 92.1 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
1957.17
On View
On view
Provenance
By descent to his son, Sir Herbert Edmund Frankland Lewis, 4th Baronet (1846–1911), Harpton Court, Aberyswyth, Radnorshire, by 1883–1911;
Purchased from the Lewis estate by Sir Henry William Duff-Gordon, 6th Baronet (1866–1953), Halkin, Aberdeen, 1911–1956;
Purchased from the Duff-Gordon estate by David M. Koetser Gallery, New York and London, 1956–January 4, 1957;
Purchased from David M. Koetser Gallery by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1957.
Exhibition History
Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, November 30, 1956–January 2, 1957.
Angels and Urchins: Images of Children at the Joslyn, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, November 15, 1980–January 4, 1981, no. 10.
La peinture française au XVIIème siècle dans les collections américaines, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, January 26–April 26, 1982; France in the Golden Age: 17th Century French Paintings from American Collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 26–August 22, 1982; Art Institute of Chicago, September 18–November 28, 1982, no. 59.
In Quest of Excellence: Civic Pride, Patronage, Connoisseurship, Center for Fine Arts, Miami, January 14–April 22, 1984, no. 60.
Joslyn Treasures: Well Traveled and Rarely Seen, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, June 3–August 28, 2011.
Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 16, 2007–January 13, 2008; Denver Art Museum, February 23–May 25, 2008; Seattle Art Museum, June 19–September 21, 2008.
Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.
Published References
John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of The Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters: Nicholas Poussin, Claude Lorraine, and Jean Baptist Greuze, vol. 8 (London: Smith and Son, 1837).
Marcel Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Paintings (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961),1: 485, no. 221.
Dorothy Burgess, “Lorrain Often Called Greatest Landscape Artist,” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, March 15, 1965, 34.
Marcel Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968), 101.
Marcel Roethlisberger and Doretta Cecchi, L’opera complete di Claude Lorrain (Milan: Rizzoli, 1975), no. 55, (repro.).
Marcel Roethlisberger and Doretta Cecchi, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Claude Lorrain, trans. Claude Lauriol (Paris: Flammarion, 1977), no. 53, (repro.).
John D. Morse, Old Maters Paintings in North America (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), 52.
Hollister Sturges, Angels and Urchins: Images of Children at the Joslyn (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1980), 18, (repro.).
Pierre Rosenberg, France in the Golden Age: 17th Century French Paintings from American Collections, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), 278, (repro.).
Jan van der Marck, In Quest of Excellence: Civic Pride, Patronage, Connoisseurship, exh. cat. (Miami: Center for Fine Arts, 1984), 11, (repro.).
Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 50–51, 53, (repro.).
Ann Dumas, ed., Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 24, 82–83, (repro.).
David Ekserdjian, “What’s in a Name? Emulation and the Hazards of Attribution,” Artibus et Historiae, vol. 42, no. 83 (2021): 284, (repro.).
