Harbour at Sunrise

Harbour at Sunrise

SK-A-4977

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An imaginary harbour, at the first light of dawn. On the right, a Roman triumphal arch catches the early rays of the sun. Claude Lorrain – a Frenchman who worked in Rome – was a master at capturing the atmosphere of each particular time of day. His poetic, Italianate landscapes influenced many of his contemporaries, including the Dutch Italianates.

Jaarverslag Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam 2002, p. 58, 59.

painter: Claude Lorrain

c. 1637 - c. 1638

olieverf op doek

• height 106 cm x width 130 cm x thickness 11 cm
• height 74 cm x width 98.3 cm

Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery, the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and H.B. van der Ven, The Hague

purchase 2003-01

Public domain

…; collection M. Guillaume Perrochel (1574-1659), Paris, Sèvres;{Note RMA.} ? from whom purchased by Lt.-General Sir Godfrey Bosville Macdonald (1775 - 1832), 3rd Baron Macdonald of Slate, Bridlington;{Note RMA.} by descent through his family to Sir Alexander Somerled Angus Bosville Macdonald of Sleat(1917-58), Thorpe Hall, Rudston;{Note RMA.} from whom purchased by the dealer Gooden & Fox, London, 1956;{Note RMA.} from whom purchased by Michael Richards(?-1995), London, 1967;{Note RMA.} purchased from his estate by the dealer Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, after 1995; from whom, $2,100,000, to the museum, with support from the SponsorBingo Loterij, the Vereniging Rembrandt, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and a private collector, 2003

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

• Jaarverslag Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam 2002, p. 58, 59.
• M. Kitson, 'Claude Lorrain: Two Unpublished Paintings and the Problem of Variants', Studies in Renaissance & Baroque Art presented to Anthony Blunt on his 60th birthday, Londen en New York (1967), p. 142-149.
• M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Paintings, New York, 1979.
• Documentatiemap SK.
• D. Bull, 'Havengezicht bij zonsopgang', Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt 13 (2003) nr. 2, p. 7-10.

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