View of Delphi with a Procession
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée; French, 1600-1682)
1673
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About this work
This painting of the ancient city of Delphi (in what is now Greece) presents a delicate rendering of the glowing Mediterranean atmosphere. Like many other foreign artists drawn to the ruins of antiquity, French painter Claude Lorrain was fascinated with the ancient Roman Empire. Here, he evoked a serene, bucolic world akin to the poetic vision of the ancient Roman writer Virgil, depicting the ruins restored to their original glory as Claude imagined. This painting was commissioned by Cardinal Carlo Camillo Massimi, an important and erudite collector in Rome.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 101.6 × 127 cm (40 × 50 in.)
Museum record · 5 owners · 6 exhibitions
Provenance
- Commissioned along with Coast View with Perseus and the Origin of Coral (LV 184) by Cardinal Carlo Camillo Massimi (died 1676), Rome, 1673, presumably to accompany two other paired paintings by Claude, identified as Landscape with Argus Gaurding Io (LV 86) and Coast View with Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl (LV 99); at his death to his younger brother, Fabio Camillo Massimi.
- Possibly John Drummond, first earl of Melfort, London, by 1690; possibly sold Whitehall, London, June 21, 1693.
- Humphrey Edwin, by 1746; probably sold by his widow, c. 1750.
- In the possession of the Earls of Derby, certainly by 1854 when it was lent to London 1854; by descent to Edward George Villiers, seventeenth earl of Derby; sold Christie’s London, July 26, 1940, to Rothschild for £126, as Priests Proceeding with a Sacrificial Bull towards a Fortified City.
- Arnold Seligmann, Rey, and Co., New York, by 1941; purchased by the Art Institute, 1941.
Exhibitions
- London, British Institution, Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French, and English Masters…, June 1854.
- Nottingham, Midland Counties Art Museum, Pictures and Objects in the Midland Counties Art Museum, 1878, as Landscape.
- New York, Wildenstein, Gods and Heroes: Baroque Images of Antiquity, October 30, 1968–January 4, 1969, as Landscape with Sacrificial Procession.
- Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines, January 29–April 26, 1982; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 26–August 22, 1982; Art Institute of Chicago, September 18–November 28, 1982.
- Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Claude Lorrain, 1600–1682, October 17, 1982–January 2, 1983, no. P50; traveled to Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, February 15–May 16, 1983.
- Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Itaria no hikari: Kurōdo Roran to risō fūkei, September 15–December 6, 1998.
