A classical landscape

1730–58

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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).

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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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