Claude Lorrain Biography

orig. Claude Gellée

(1600 - 1682)

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  • Paintings
  • 1634 Harbour Scene (Hermitage, St Petersburg)
  • 1636 View of the Campo Vaccino (Louvre, Paris)
  • 1637 Landcape with a Country Dance (Habrough, Lincolnshire)
  • 1637 Harbour with Villa Medici (Uffizi, Florence)
  • 1648 Landscape: The Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah (National Gallery, London)
  • 1656 The Sermon on the Mount (Frick Collection, New York City)
  • 1658 Landscape: David at the Cave of Adullam (National Gallery, London)
  • 1661 Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Hermitage, St Petersburg)
  • 1667 Coast Scene: The Rape of Europa (Buckingham Palace, London)
  • Other
  • 1635–6 Liber Veritatis (British Museum, London)
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(born 1600, Chamagne, France—died Nov. 23, 1682, Rome) French painter. Born in the duchy of Lorraine, he went to Rome as a youth, and there trained with the landscape and fresco painter Agostino Tassi and encountered the work of Nicolas Poussin. He became known as the master of the ideal landscape, a view of nature more beautiful and harmonious than nature itself; his landscapes and coastal scenes contain architectural fragments and figures. His reputation is based particularly on his sensitivity to the tonal values of light and atmosphere. By the 1630s he was well known and successful, with illustrious patrons among the French and Italian aristocracy. His work influenced the Dutch painters in Rome in the 1630s and '40s, as well as the entire course of European landscape painting. Some 250 paintings and over 1,000 drawings by him survive.


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