LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY
- d'Onofri, Landscape with Battus
- after Brueghel, Alpine Landscape
- School of Antwerp, Imaginary Landscape
- Sadeler, Facade of a Temple
- van Noort, Landscape with the Temple
- Davent, Landscape with Ancient Ruins
- att. to Pozzoserato, Mountainous Landscape
- van de Velde II , Interior of the Ruins
- Waterloo, Two Travelers
- Grimaldi, Landscape
- Saftleven, Landscape with a Man
- Barrière, View of the Town
- Monti, Landscape with a River
- Meyeringh, Landscape with Mercury
- Bout, The Skaters
- Lelu, A Town in Portugal
- Dietricy, Heroic Landscape
- Le Loup , View of the Town
- att. to Verrijk , River Scene
- Kolbe, Landscape with a Cowherd
- Roos, Vast Mountainous Landscape with Herds
- Roman School, Lago d’Albano,
- Isabey, Ruines du Château
- Williams, A Part of Melrose Abbey
- Palmer, The Morning of Life
- Richardson, Loggers by a Lake
- att. to Preller, Oak Trees
- Lalanne, Plage des Vaches
- Miller, A Road in Winter
- Haden, Sunset in Ireland
- Doeleman, Stormy Sky
- Meryon, Nouvelle Zélande
- Latenay, Autumn Trees
- German School, Birches
- Cameron, Ben Lomond
- Yeats, July 4, 1908
- MacLaughlan, Rossinières
- Cotton, Spring Landscape
- Legros, Une Vallée
- Torre-Bueno, Farmlands
- Jungnickel, Loser - Altaussee
- Komjati, Willows
- Wengenroth, Bucks County
- Kantor, Abstracted Landscape
- Eby, Christmas Trees
- Massen, Landscape with Trees
A Town in Portugal
Drawing in grey wash over pencil on laid paper, ca.1775, 380 x 520 mm., ex collection A. Sauz or Sanz, 1886 (not in Lugt).
Lelu was a student of François Boucher and a well-known painter of history, a draughtsman and print maker. Rather unusually, for a French, eighteenth-century artist, he made a trip to Portugal in or around 1775. The Metropolitan Museum owns a view by him of a church in Sintra (in Portugal) with clear similarities, but a contact of ours in Sintra has assured us that our drawing is not a picture of that town. Precise location aside, it is quite fascinating how the drawing still tells us that this is a warm country: the vegetation lush but low, the buildings stone or brick but with open-air terraces and carelessly straw- or vine-covered roofs, the open well, the parasol, the very lightness of the drawing, as if to suggest bright sunlight and heat. As the MMA drawing is known to be an exact depiction of the place, perhaps this place too will be identified. The drawing must, at any rate, be a souvenir of Lelu's Portugese excursion.