Updated 10 June 2025
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Landscape with Dancing Satyrs and Nymphs
| Date | 1646 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | oil on canvas |
| Size（cm） | 98 x 125 |
| Inscriptions | Signed and dated lower right: CLAVD [...] / I.V.R. [FECIT] 164 (6?) |
| Credit Line | Transferred from the Agency for Cultural Affairs |
| Standard ref. | LV108 |
| Category | Paintings |
| Collection Number | P.1975-0008 |
Claude Lorrain was one of the seventeenth century's greatest exponents of French Classical painting. Working in Rome, he gained a high reputation particularly for his landscapes. The pastoral scene presented here fully shows off the artist's exquisite skill at depicting nuances of light and atmosphere. It is a festive scene in which Pan, god of shepherds and flocks, and a nymph, both crowned with a wreath, sit in the shade of some trees as satyrs and other nymphs dance to music. (Source: Gallery label, July 2016)
Provenance
Sir Thomas Frankland, 1744-1831; Earl Howe; Private collection, Brussel; Heim, Paris; Transferred from the Agency for Cultural Affairs, 1976.
Exhibition History
- 1978
- European Landscape Painting, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, 3 November 1978 - 15 January 1979, cat. no. 24
- 1996
- The Crossing Visions: European and Modern Japanese Art from the Collections of The National Museum of Western Art & The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 20 July 1996 - 8 September 1996, cat. no. 75
- 1998
- Claude Lorrain and the Ideal Landscape, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 15 September 1998 - 6 December 1998, cat. no. 44
- 2014
- Voices Calling from the Unusual: Hirano Keiichiro's Selection of Western Art Masterpieces, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 8 April 2014 - 15 June 2014, cat. no. 2
- 2017
- [Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017] Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 22 April 2017 - 2 July 2017, Akita Museum of Modern Art, 15 July-18 September, cat. no. 47
- 2021
- National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y2_43 | T2_46
Bibliography
- 1972
- Roethlisberger, Marcel. Nuovi aspetti di Claude Lorrain. Paragone. no. 273, November 1972, pp. 30-32, col. pl. I, psl. 21-23.
- 1975
- Röthlisberger, Marcel; Cecchi, Doretta. L'opera completa di Claude Lorrain. Milano, Rizzoli, 1975, p. 108, no. 173, col. pl. 27.
- 1977
- Bulletin Annuel du Musée National d’Art Occidental, No. 10 (1975), 1977, Nouvelles acquisitions, par Chisaburoh F. Yamada, pp. 6-7. Nouvelles acquisitions (catalogue). pp. 20-21. col. repr. p. 2.
- 1977
- Gazette des Beaux-Arts. ser. 6. tome 89, Mar. 1977, "Chroniquie des Arts", p. 80, no. 349, repr.
- 1978
- Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1978 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 19, col. repr.
- 1978
- Kitson, Michael. Claude Lorrain: Liber Veritatis. London, British Museum Publications Ltd., 1978, no. 108, repr.
- 1979
- The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 159, repr.
- 2006
- Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2006 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 41, col. repr.
- 2009
- Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2009, no. 41, col. repr.
- 2013
- Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 54, col. repr.
- 2017
- Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: from the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017 (exh. cat.). Nakada, Asuka, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2017, pp. 75, 140, cat. no. 47, col. repr.
- 2021
- When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 87, 179, cat. no. Y2_43 | T2_46, col. repr.