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Dimensions: measurements note 23 1/2 by 38 5/8 in.; 59.7 by 100.7 cm.
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Provenance: Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, April 19, 1967, lot 57, to Clifford Duits for £400;
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, by 1970, Howard A. Noble Fund, inv. no. 70.29.1.
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Literature: P. Rosenberg, France in the Golden Age, Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections, New York 1982, pp. 230, 347, under "Bourdon," cat. no. 6, reproduced p. 347;
C. Wright, The French Painters of the 17th century, Boston 1985, p. 149;
J. Thuillier, Sébastien Bourdon 1616-1671, Paris 2000, p. 334, cat. no. 200, reproduced.
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Notes: SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITION FUND OF CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART, PITTSBURGH
By the mid-1650s Bourdon was back in Paris where he focused much of his energy on classical landscape painting, drawing inspiration from both his sojourn to Rome (1636-38) and the work of Poussin. These landscapes, of which the present composition is a lovely example, are characterized by an emphasis on geometries with clearly defined planes, and by a vibrant, saturated and, as is visible here, golden palette.
