Three Archers and a Figure with a Spear, ca. 1670–72, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk underdrawing, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (15.9 x 23.5 cm), Drawings, Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome), Following 17th century hierarchies, Claude’s landscapes were elevated to the loftier realm of history painting by their inclusion of small-scale scenes taken from mythology and ancient history. This sheet of studies relates to the 1672 Coast View of Libya with Aeneas Hunting, in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels painted for Paolo Francesco Falconieri (1626-1696), a prince of Florentine origin living in Rome on the via Giulia in a palace that had been remodelled by Borromini in the 1650s
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Three Archers, Figure, Spear, ca, 1670–72, Pen, brown ink, brush, wash, black chalk underdrawing, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4, 15.9 23.5 cm, Drawings, Claude Lorrain, Gellée, French, Chamagne, 1604/5?–1682, Rome, Following 17th, century, hierarchies, Claude, landscapes, elevated, loftier realm, history painting, inclusion, small-scale scenes, mythology, ancient history, sheet, studies relates, 1672 Coast, View, Libya, Aeneas Hunting, Musée des, Beaux-Arts, Brussels painted, Paolo Francesco, Falconieri, 1626-1696, prince, Florentine origin, living, via Giulia, palace, remodelled, Borromini, 1650s
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