School of Claude, Landscape with a Column and Figures

By Permission of the Trustees of Dulwich Picture Gallery

School of Claude, Landscape with a Column and Figures, no date given, (Canvas, 104.8 x 140 cm). Although Ruskin refers to the painting as no.260 Dulwich Gallery, Cook and Wedderburn note that this is an error as no.260 is, in fact, by Nicolas Poussin or his school. Cook and Wedderburn suggest that Ruskin was referring to no.264 (now no.53 in the Dulwich Picture Gallery Catalogue). The catalogue notes that although the painting was 'attributed to Claude in the Bourgeois Inventory of 1813' that this 'attribution is no longer accepted' (p.44). The catalogue suggests that picture might be the work of Pierre Patel (c.1605-76), as he 'is known to have worked in the manner of Claude' and painted a landscape of about the same size, which 'belonged to Desenfans before 1795'(p.44). The painting became part of the Dulwich collection as part of the Bourgeois Bequest in 1811.

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Claude Gellée (le Lorrain) 1600-82
Landscape with a Column and Figures n.d.
Oil on canvas, 104.8x140cm
Provenance: ?Desenfans Sale, 8/4/1786 (385), as by Pierre Patel (c.1605-76); Desenfans Sale, Skinner & Dyke, 24/2/1795 (85), as 'Patel: Landscape with Ruins and Figures';Bourgeois Bequest 1811
Further Comments: No. 260 was by Nicolas Poussin, however, as Ruskin was referring to a work by Claude, Cook and Wedderburn claim that Ruskin was in fact thinking of no. 264 instead, which is now catalogued as no. 53.
Collection: Dulwich Picture Gallery, London