COLLECTION NAME:
Wetmore Print Collection
Record
Filename:
FW-0267.jpg
Creator:
GELLEE, Claude (Lorrain)
Creation Date:
1630
Primary Creation Century:
17th Century
Title:
The Tempest
Alternate Title:
La Tempete
Object Type:
print
Medium:
etching
Donor:
Fannie Wetmore, 1928; Donated 1928, purchased from F. Meder (Manhattan “Dealer in Old and Rare Prints”) in 1907 as a collection with 12 other Gellee prints of which this probably was 1, documented by receipt in our Wetmore archives
Dimensions:
12.7 height x 17.145 width 12.8 x 17.6
Descriptive Notes:
(Possibly one of his "seaport" prints?)
Comments:
seascapes, men, vessels, boats, ships, barrels, shipwrecks, sailors
Box Number:
Box15 print 15