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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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109495
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View of the Acqua Acetosa (recto)
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109495
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drawing
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View of the Acqua Acetosa (recto)
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
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q80001896
creators
1873
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Drawing
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1
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Sheet: 26 x 40.5 cm (10 1/4 x 15 15/16 in.)
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France, 17th century
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1928.15.a
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pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite, framing lines in brown ink
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View of the Acqua Acetosa (recto), c. 1645. Claude Lorrain (French, 1604–1682). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite, framing lines in brown ink; 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.a
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cream(3) laid paper
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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
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Gordon Bailey Washburn, and Agnes Mongan. <em>Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America; January, 1935, the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York</em>. [Buffalo, N.Y.]: [F.W. Burow], 1935.
page_number
Reproduced: cat. no. 47
citation
<em>A Thousand Years of Landscape East and West: Paintings, Drawings, Prints.</em> Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1945.
page_number
Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 4
citation
Smith College Museum of Art. <em>Claude Lorrain, 1600-1682: Paintings, Drawings, Prints</em>. Northampton, MA: Smith College Museum of Art, 1952.
page_number
Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 6, no. 6
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 589
citation
<em>Van Clouet tot Matisse</em>. Museum Boymans te Rotterdam. [Rotterdam]: [Museum Boymans], 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 39, no. 22
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
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Reproduced: p. 118
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
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Reproduced: p. 118
citation
Graf, Dieter. <em>Master Drawings of the Roman Baroque from the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf: A Selection from the Lambert Krahe Collection.</em> London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 112, under no. 45
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 172
citation
Schloder, John E.<em> Baroque Imagery.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1984.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 69, no. 38
citation
Goldfarb, Hilliard T.<em> From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1989.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 72-73, no. 31; p.75, under no. 32; p. 78, under no. 35; p. 80, under no. 36
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, p. 6, pp. 94-97, Reproduced: p. 95
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: P. 157
creditline
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Greene
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2026-05-29 05:50:54.267000
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109495
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pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite, framing lines in brown ink
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