Boats on a shore (recto); Study of a figure (verso)
Boats on a shore (recto); Study of a figure (verso) - black chalk, pen and brown and black ink, brown and grey wash (recto); pen and brown ink, red chalk (verso)
Lot n° 43
20,8cmx27cm
This drawing was probably made from life, circa 1638-40, in the harbour of Ripa Grande on the right bank of the Tiber, facing Mount Aventine, a favourite spot for the landscapists of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries. On theverso Claude traced the motives of the two boats, as he did on quite a few drawings from the same period (M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain, The Drawings, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, nos. 201, 208, 305, 307, 422 and 482).