Updated 16 January 2024
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Landscape with Dancing Satyrs and Nymphs
Date | 1646 |
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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, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 14 September 1978 - 26 October 1978, cat. no. 24, col. repr.
- 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
- 2007
- Gods and Nature: The Essence of European Art from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Himeji City Museum of Art, 4 November 2007 - 2 December 2007, cat. no. 1
- 2007
- Gods and Nature: The Essence of European Art from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, 11 December 2007 - 3 February 2008, cat. no. 1
- 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
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
- Kitson, Michael. Claude Lorrain: Liber Veritatis. London, British Museum Publications Ltd., 1978, no. 108, 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.
- 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.
- 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.