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After Claude Lorraine (French, 1600–1682) Landscape with the Nymph Egeria mourning over Numa, with her attendants and greyhounds oil on canvas, unframed 76.50 x 103cm (30 x 40in)
Other Notes: The present work is after Claude's original composition held in the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples. The subject is from Claude's Liber Veritatis.
Oil on canvas which is unlined and unframed. The wooden stretcher is warped, the canvas tension is slack. The canvas is not attached along the lower edge and there are prominent stretcher bar marks. There is a patch on the reverse of the lower left hand corner which securing an old tear. The paint layer is stable but there are areas of wear, abrasion and losses. The varnish is very yellowed, patchy and uneven.

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