Coast Scene with the Port of Santa Marinella

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) French

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Claude Lorrain was the most famous and most sought-after landscape painter working in Rome in the 17th century. He made numerous plein air studies in the countryside around Rome and then incorporated his knowledge of nature and light into his painted compositions.

This sheet is one of a pair of presentation drawings made for Pope Urban VIII who commissioned from the artist a pair of small octagonal paintings on copper depicting sites associated with papal building projects. This one relates to a painting at the Petit Palais, Paris, Coast Scene with the Port of Santa Marinella (PDUT872), of the same size as the drawing. The pendant, Coast Scene with a View of Civitavecchia was not executed in oil. The subject seems to have been replaced by Pastoral Landscape with Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo, known through a painting in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (PD.950-1963).

Coast Scene with the Port of Santa Marinella, Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome), Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash with white heightening

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