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This drawing represents a view of the famous Acqua Acetosa, a mineral spring that until the 19th century provided the favored drinking water of Romans who believed in its healing powers. Although topographically accurate, the sheet is not a plein-air study but a vision of an imagined Arcadian world carefully rendered by Gellée, one of the most original painters of the 17th century. The French-born artist spent his career painting and drawing the Roman Campagna and the Neopolitan coastline. Sublimely beautiful pen-and-ink and wash drawings such as the example here reveal the artist's highly poetic response to the natural world and his unparalleled sensitivity to light.
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Document identity
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109496
label
David and Goliath (verso)
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obj
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
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109496
contentType
drawing
title
David and Goliath (verso)
description
This drawing represents a view of the famous Acqua Acetosa, a mineral spring that until the 19th century provided the favored drinking water of Romans who believed in its healing powers. Although topographically accurate, the sheet is not a plein-air study but a vision of an imagined Arcadian world carefully rendered by Gellée, one of the most original painters of the 17th century. The French-born artist spent his career painting and drawing the Roman Campagna and the Neopolitan coastline. Sublimely beautiful pen-and-ink and wash drawings such as the example here reveal the artist's highly poetic response to the natural world and his unparalleled sensitivity to light.
date
c. 1645
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80001897
creators
1873
genreSpecific
Drawing
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 26 x 40.5 cm (10 1/4 x 15 15/16 in.)
cul
France, 17th century
accession
1928.15.b
Source extras
tec
black chalk
tombstone
David and Goliath (verso), c. 1645. Claude Lorrain (French, 1604–1682). Black chalk; sheet: 26 x 40.5 cm (10 1/4 x 15 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Greene, 1928.15.b
supportMaterials
description
cream(3) laid paper
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
verso, lower left, in brown ink: beau peisage de claude Le Lorrain; lower left, in graphite: David; lower right, in graphite: Golia; upper center, in graphite: No 2599; lower center, in graphite: Claude Lorraine / From the Collection of / Lord Brownlow (The Belton / House Collection) / Signed Claudio Gellée.; lower left, in red watercolor: 55
citations
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned: Cat. no. 34, P. 4, 6, 94-97; Reproduced: P. 96
creditline
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Greene
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2026-05-29 05:50:53.117000
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109496
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Drawings
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DR - French
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black chalk
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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