Landscape with St Philip Baptising the Eunuch

Claude Lorraine (1604/05 - 1682)

National Museum Cardiff

1678

Claude has created a pastoral idyll by soft lighting, a more naturalistic landscape and a fragile quality. The subject merges into the foreground and does not dominate. Inscribed: 'S. Filippo battesta Lenucco della Regina'.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 85 x 141cm
• Art Fund Grant: £40000 ( Total: £500,000; Tax Remission)
• ArtFunded in: 1984
• Vendor: Allandale 1949 Settlement

Provenance

Painted for Cardinal Fabrizio Spada; in Rome until 1798; Sloane, 1802 in England by 1803-4; William Beckford by 1837; John Smith of Bond St by 1842; Monro of Novar by 1854, sale 1878; W.B. Beamont, by descent to Lord Allandale.

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