Claude Lorrain Art
French, 1604-1682
Claude Lorrain, born Claude Gellée, was a French painter, draughtsman and engraver of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy and is admired for his achievements in landscape painting. He painted a pastoral world of fields and valleys not distant from castles and towns that entered into these quiet scenes. Landscape as a subject was distinctly nontraditional and secular during this time of religious and mythical iconography, and Gellée was certainly breaking with tradition. John Constable described the artist as the most perfect landscape painter the world ever saw and declared that in Claude’s landscape, “all is lovely, all amiable, all is amenity and repose; the calm sunshine of the heart." He passed away on November 23, 1682.
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pair of Italian 17th century Oil on Canvas paintings, by Claude Lorrain
By Claude Lorrain
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and wonderfully detailed pair of Italian 17th century Oil on Canvas paintings, by Claude Lorrain. These wonderful paintings are set within rectangular Giltwood frames with an inner berried foliate band and mottled outer edges. Each painting depicts a classical landscape of ruins with the Athenian Acropolis in the background. The left painting displays an impressive altar to 'Athena of Velletri' with classical figures paying tribute aside a smoldering urn. Athena's companion Hermes can be seen flying above the crowds of people and overseeing the occasion. The painting to the right displays a classical ruin with the Acropolis in the distance. The Bill of Sale...
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17th Century Italian Antique Claude Lorrain Art
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Giltwood
"La Tempete (The Tempest)" an Etching
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Tempete" is an original etching by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellee). This is Claude's earliest dated etching (1630). The work depicts a storm-tossed sea with ships on the verge of ...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Claude Lorrain Art
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Etching
A landscape drawing by Claude Lorrain, with a preliminary sketch on the verso
By Claude Lorrain
Located in PARIS, FR
This study presents a typical Roman countryside landscape: an ancient mausoleum in front of which a cart is passing by followed by two peasants. If the technique (a pen drawing on graphite lines, completed with a wash of brown and grey inks) and the signature inevitably evoke the art of Lorrain, we find on the verso of this drawing additional evidences that lead us to consider this unpublished drawing as a work by the master.
The motif of the mausoleum has been taken up in pen on the verso in a technique that can be found in several other drawings by Lorrain. There is also a study of three characters, which can be considered as preparatory to Lorrain’s painting entitled The Port of Ostia with the Embarkation of Saint Paula, leading us to claim this attribution with a dating of around 1639.
1. Claude Lorrain or the perfection of classical landscape in Rome in the 17th century
Claude Gellée was born in 1600 in Chamagne in Lorraine. Orphaned at the age of twelve, he spent a year with his brother in Freiburg, where the latter was a woodcarver. Claude Gellée then probably arrived in Rome in 1613, where he joined the workshop of Agostino Tassi (1580 - 1644) in 1617. Between 1619 and 1620 he studied for two years in Naples in the workshop of Goffredi Wals (who was himself a former pupil of Tassi).
In 1625 he returned to Lorraine for two years where he worked alongside Claude Deruet. He then returned to Rome, a city he never left for the rest of his life (except for short trips to the surrounding countryside).
From 1627 to 1650 he lived in Via Margutta. From 1635 onwards he became a renowned painter and commissions started to pour in. Considered during his lifetime as the most accomplished of the classical landscape painters, his reputation never faded.
Between 1629 and 1635 Le Lorrain often went to the Roman countryside to draw with his friend Joachim von Sandrart (1606 - 1686). He became a member of the Academy of Saint Luke in 1633, while being closely acquainted with the Bentvueghels, this guild which brought together the young Nordic painters active in Rome. In 1643 he joined the Congregation of the Virtuosi. In 1650 he moved to Via Paolina where he lived until his death.
Little is known of his intimate life. He seems to have had a daughter, Agnes, from an ancillary love affair. In 1657/ 1658 she moved in with him. Stricken with gout in 1663, he died in 1682.
2. Description of the drawing; the technique of nature studies
Two peasants are walking behind a horse-drawn cart on a road that winds through ancient tombs. While a rectangular tomb with a columned facade can be seen in the distance, the cart passes an important ancient building. It has a circular shape and its partially ruined façade is decorated with columns. The start of a second floor can...
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1630s Old Masters Claude Lorrain Art
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Ink, Pen, Graphite
17th century etching black and white landscape scene forest trees cattle
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Bouvier (The Cowherd)" is an original etching by Claude Lorrain. It depicts a shepherd with a herd of cows. This etching is also in the collections of the Met and the Louvre. It ...
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1630s Old Masters Claude Lorrain Art
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Etching
Harbour with a Round Tower
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Middletown, NY
1641. Etching on cream wove paper, 5 1/16 x 7 11/16 inches (128 x 195 mm), narrow margins. Printed 19th century on a remainder which has a partially trimmed, printed image of a Virgi...
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Mid-17th Century French School Claude Lorrain Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching
"Le Passage du Gue" etching
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Executed in 1634. The impression offered here is printed on wove paper; this is the final state and the date of printing is unknown. The sheet measures 4 1/...
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Early 19th Century Claude Lorrain Art
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Etching
17th century etching black and white landscape forest trees river scene
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"L'Apparition (The Vision)" is an original etching by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellee). This print depicts a religious vision near the edge of a river. The publisher is Mannocci #5 and...
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1630s Old Masters Claude Lorrain Art
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17th century etching black and white landscape scene forest sheep figures sky
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Shepherd and Shepherdess Conversing in a Landscape (Berger et Bergere Conversant)" is an etching by Claude Gellee (Le Lorrain). This etching is in the collections of the Metropolita...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Claude Lorrain Art
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Etching
17th century etching black and white landscape scene forest trees figures sky
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Temps, Apollon, et les Saisons (Time, Apollo, and the Seasons)" is an etching by Claude Gellée (Le Lorrain). This etching is the Fifth state (A). This state is also in collections in Paris (BN, L, PP) and Washington; Mannocci cat. no. 43. The inscription reads: "Apollo in atto di obedire al tempo. La Primavera a cominciare il ballo. Lestate no manca del suo calore. L'aurunno colsuo licore / Seguita. Linvernno tiene la sua staggione, Claudio Gillee inven.Fec.Roma 1662 con licenza de super."
A powerful example of Claude's staging of landscape in the classical manner is the etching "Time,
Apollo, and the Seasons," done in 1662 after Poussin's painting of 1624-1636, "Dance to the Music of Time...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Claude Lorrain Art
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17th century etching black and white landscape scene forest trees figures sky
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Danse Sous Les Arbes (The Country Dance)" is an etching by Claude Gellee (Le Lorrain). This etching is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum and the Louvre. Publisher: Ma...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Claude Lorrain Art
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17th century etching black and white landscape forest trees figures scene
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Danse Sous Les Arbes (The Country Dance)" is an etching by Claude Gellee (Le Lorrain). This etching is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum and the Louvre. Publisher: Ma...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Claude Lorrain Art
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Etching
17th century etching black and white landscape harbor ruins figures scene
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Harbour Scene" is an engraving by Claude Gellee (Le Lorrain). The artist signed the piece in plate lower left.
7 3/4" x 9 5/8" art
18 1/8" x 20 1/4" frame
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17th century etching black and white landscape scene forest trees goats
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Les Chevres (The Goats)" is an original etching by Claude Lorrain. It depicts two pairs of goats and a shepherd watching over them. This etching is also in the collections of the Me...
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1630s Old Masters Claude Lorrain Art
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Etching
17th century etching black and white landscape forest trees river figures scene
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Point de Bois (Rebecca & Eliezer)" is an etching by Claude Gellee (Le Lorrain). This etching is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum and the Louvre. Publisher: Mannocci ...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Claude Lorrain Art
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Etching
17th century etching black and white landscape forest trees figures scene
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Patre et la Bergere (The Herdsman & Shepherdess)" is an etching by Claude Gellee (Le Lorrain). This etching is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum and the British Museu...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Claude Lorrain Art
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17th century etching black and white landscape scene forest trees figures sky
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Fuite en Egypte (The Flight into Egypt)" is an original etching by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gelee). This piece depicts the biblical story of Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus goin...
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17th century etching black and white figures sketch
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Etude d'Une Scene du Brigands (Study with Brigands)" is an etching by Claude Gellee (Le Lorrain). This etching is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Art Institute of...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Claude Lorrain Art
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17th century etching black and white landscape scene forest trees figures
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Scene de Brigands" is an etching by Claude Gellee (Le Lorrain). This etching is in the collections of the Louvre and the Art Institute of Chicago. Publisher: Mannocci #11.
5" x 7...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Claude Lorrain Art
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17th century etching black and white seascape scene boat waves ocean clouds sky
By Claude Lorrain
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"La Tempete" is an original etching by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellee). This is Claude's earliest dated etching (1630). The work depicts a storm-tossed sea with ships on the verge of ...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Claude Lorrain Art
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Etching
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