Return of the Herd

(Claude Claude Lorrain)

Monsieur p.r. (probably M. Piniez); Andrew Hay, London by 1714; Sale, London, Covent Garden, 1714, lot 40; [Sir] Robert Walpole, later first Lord of the Treasury; at the Walpole house, Houghton Hall, before 1777, inherited by the Marquesses of Cholmondely and remaining at Houghton Hall until 1989.

Claude Lorrain, Liber Veritatis, original (with the inscription in Claude’s hand, “fait pour monsieur p.r.”) as no. 115; second index listing it as the property of “Mr Walpole”; Richard Earlom, Engravings of Claude’s Liber Veritatis of 1777, listed as property of Mr Walpole; Catalogue of the Contents of Houghton Hall, 1901, no. 145; M. Roethlisberger, “The Houghton Hall Claude”, Apollo, vol. CXXXI (may 1990), p.300-303; Old Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland, exh. Cat. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, and Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, 1990, p.160, under no. 72, fig. 72 (cat. By Hugh McAndrew); New York, Colngahi USA Inc, Claude to Corot, the Development of Landscape Painting in France, 1990, pp.40-44, illus. Plate 6 (entry by Prof Michael Kitson).