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Copy of "The Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca"

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1805

GUSN

GUSN-17372

Description

Classical landscape with festive group of twelve people in left foreground including a woman with yellowish dress playing on a tambourine and man dancing. Several oxen at right. Distant background castle and mountain scenery. It is copy of "The Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca" by Claude Lorraine. The original hangs in the National Gallery in London.

Details

Descriptive Terms

oil paintings (visual works)
landscapes (representations)
paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
castles (fortifications)
dance
mountains
figure- and animal-derived motifs
people (agents)
recreation
Oil on Canvas
Landscape
People
Castle
Mountain
Recreation
Dance
Painting

Inscription

Signed: ""M Corne pinxit--1805""

Maker

Cornè, Michele Felice, 1752-1845 (Painter)
Reproduction of Lorraine, Claude, 1600-1682 (Painter)

Location of Origin

USA; Italy

Dimensions

41 1/2 x 65 3/4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Sumner Appleton Weld

Accession Number

1964.412

Places

Massachusetts (United States)
Rhode Island (United States)

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