Italianate River Landscape with Bridge with Tower - Claude Lorrain

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

"Italianate River Landscape with Bridge with Tower" by Claude Lorrain (n.d.) Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper, tipped on to cream card.

Commentary

"Italianate River Landscape with Bridge with Tower" by Claude Lorrain (n.d.) invites a close look at how form and feeling work together. Themes to notice include pen and ink drawings. This piece is held in the source collection's Prin ts and Drawings collection. Claude Lorrain is the artist behind this work. A useful anchor for reading the piece: Possibly after Claude Lorrain (French, 1600-1682) or possibly attributed to Gaspar van Wittel (Flemish, 1652/3-1736) or in the style of Richard Wilson (English, 1714-1782). The work is cataloged within a France cultural context. How to look at this work: It is cataloged as pen and ink drawings, which gives a clue to how the museum frames the object. Its medium (Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper, tipped on to cream card) affects texture, durability, and how detail reads at different distances. Its listed dimensions (8.8 × 14.8 cm (3 1/2 × 5 7/8 in.)) suggest how intimate or monumental it may feel in person. Subject cues from the catalog include pen and ink drawings. Compare this reading with the museum record at the source collection: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/95838

Sources: Art Institute of Chicago; Art Institute of Chicago / Public Records; Art Institute of Chicago Collection Data