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On Display

Permanent collection

Claude Lorrain

Chamagne, 1604/05 - Roma, 1682

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.

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