By Permission of the Trustees of Dulwich Picture Gallery
By Permission of the Trustees of Dulwich Picture Gallery
Cook and Wedderburn note that number 241 is likely to be a misprint for 244, since the former is not by Claude Lorrain. Number 244 is Jacob with Laban and his Daughters (1676) (Canvas, 72 x 94.5 cm). One of Claude's biblical paintings, inspired by the book of Genesis, though the painting does not focus on one specific moment from the biblical narrative. Peter Murray, in the Dulwich Picture Gallery Catalogue notes that 'an earlier version (1614) of the same subject is at Petworth House, Sussex' (p.43). The composition corresponds with Liber Veritatis no.188 and was based on a Claude etching of 1663.
Claude Gellée (le Lorrain) 1600-82
Landscape with Jacob, Laban and his Daughters 1676
Oil on canvas, 72x94.5cm
Exhibitions: RA 1902 (50); NG 1947 (3); RA, Landscape in French Art, 1949-50 (77)
Provenance: Painted for Franz Mayer, Regnsburg; Earl of Halifax; his Sale 10/3/1739 (80); Duke of St.Albans; his (Anon.) Sale, Phillips, 8/6/1798 (78), bt. Bourgeois Bequest; Bourgeois Bequest, 1811
Further Comments: A drawing, which appears to be the study for this Oil, can be found at the British Museum. Some twelve years earlier in 1654, Claude produced another oil painting on canvas of the same title, 143.5x251.5cm, which is now at Petworth House, Sussex.
Collection: Dulwich Picture Gallery, London