A classical landscape
One of the finest imaginative draftsmen working in London in the mid-eighteenth century, Chatelain was also a skilled etcher. This classically composed landscape is executed mostly in ink and brown wash, with blue touches applied to the water and a distant hill. A central river leads the eye to a distant bay, framed by a large large tree at right and a series of steep receding cliffs at left. The artist's admiration for the French landscape painter Claude is evident, and it is not surprising that Chatelain worked with Francis Vivares to produce one of the first prints after Claude to be published in England ("A Dance Under the Trees", or "Landscape with Rural Dance," 1743).
Artwork Details
- Title: A classical landscape
- Artist: Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain (British, London (?) ca. 1710–1758 London)
- Date: 1730–58
- Medium: Graphite, pen and gray ink, brush and blue, brown and gray wash
- Dimensions: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 12 in. (22.3 x 30.5 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013
- Object Number: 2013.101
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain
1730–58
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain
ca. 1730–58
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain
ca. 1730–58
Multiple artists/makers
1743
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1730–58
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