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Seaport With The Embarkation Of The Queen Of Sheba Print by Claude Lorrain

Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba

Landscape With Narcissus And Echo Print by Claude Lorrain

Landscape with Narcissus and Echo

The Trojan Women Setting Fire To Their Fleet Print by Claude Lorrain

The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet

A Seaport Print by Claude Lorrain

A Seaport

Landscape With A Goatherd And Goats Print by Claude Lorrain

Landscape with a Goatherd and Goats

Pastoral Landscape With Huntsmen Print by Claude Lorrain

Pastoral Landscape with Huntsmen

Landscape With Sheep Print by Claude Lorrain

Landscape with Sheep

The Ford Print by Claude Lorrain

The Ford

Landscape With Apollo And The Muses Print by Claude Lorrain

Landscape with Apollo and the Muses

Rest On The Flight Into Egypt Print by Claude Lorrain

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Pastoral Landscape. The Roman Campagna Print by Claude Lorrain

Pastoral Landscape. The Roman Campagna

A View In Rome Print by Claude Lorrain

A View in Rome

Landscape With Aeneas At Delos Print by Claude Lorrain

Landscape with Aeneas at Delos

Landscape With Cephalus And Procris Reunited By Diana Print by Claude Lorrain

Landscape with Cephalus and Procris reunited by Diana

Landscape With David At The Cave Of Adullam Print by Claude Lorrain

Landscape with David at the Cave of Adullam

Landscape With Hagar And The Angel Print by Claude Lorrain

Landscape with Hagar and the Angel

Landscape With The Marriage Of Isaac And Rebecca Print by Claude Lorrain

Landscape with the Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca

Seaport With The Embarkation Of Saint Ursula Print by Claude Lorrain

Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula

Sunrise Print by Claude Lorrain

Sunrise

Landscape With Hagar And The Angel Print by Claude Lorrain

Landscape with Hagar and the Angel

Landscape With The Marriage Of Isaac And Rebecca Print by Claude Lorrain

Landscape with the Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca

Seaport With The Embarkation Of Saint Ursula Print by Claude Lorrain

Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula

Sunrise Print by Claude Lorrain

Sunrise

Claude Lorrain

Pastoral Landscape with a Mill

Claude Lorrain

Landscape with the Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca

Claude Lorrain

The Enchanted Castle

Claude Lorrain

Landscape with Cattle and Peasants

Claude Lorrain

Pastoral Landscape. The Roman Campagna

Claude Lorrain

Acis and Galatea

Claude Lorrain

The Siege of La Rochelle

Claude Lorrain

Campo Vaccino

Claude Lorrain

Egeria weeps Numa

Claude Lorrain

Embarkation of St. Paula to Ostia

Claude Lorrain

Harbor at sunset

Claude Lorrain

Harbour with Villa Medici

Claude Lorrain

Shepherd

Claude Lorrain

Rural dance

Claude Lorrain

Landscape with Apollo , the Muses and river god

Claude Lorrain

Landscape with Apollo and Mercury

Claude Lorrain

Landscape with penitent Magdalene

Claude Lorrain

Landscape with David and three heroes

Claude Lorrain

Landscape with the worship of the golden calf

Claude Lorrain

Landscape with the Flight into Egypt

Claude Lorrain

Landscape with the nymph Egeria and King Numa

Claude Lorrain

Landscape with Shepherd ( Pastorale )

Claude Lorrain

Landing of Cleopatra at Tarsus

Claude Lorrain

Odysseus passes Chryseis to her father

Claude Lorrain

Easter morning

Claude Lorrain

Seaport at sunrise

Claude Lorrain

Vista of Delphi

Claude Lorrain

Vista of Delphi , detail

Claude Lorrain

Reconciliation of Cephalus and Procris

Claude Lorrain

Repudiation of Hagar

Claude Lorrain

Villa in the Roman Campagna

Claude Lorrain

Villa in the Roman Campagna , detail : Cowherd

Claude Lorrain

Apollo and the Muses on Mount Helicon

Claude Lorrain

Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia

Claude Lorrain

Coast Scene with Europa and the Bull

Claude Lorrain

Imaginary View of Delphi with a Procession (Detail)

Claude Lorrain

Landscape with Apollo and Mercury

Claude Lorrain

The Judgment of Paris

Drawings

Two Women In Classical Dress Print by Claude Lorrain

Two Women in Classical Dress

Perseus And The Origin Of Coral Print by Claude Lorrain

Perseus and the Origin of Coral

Landscape With Sheep Print by Claude Lorrain

Landscape with Sheep

Landscape With Apollo And The Muses 2 Print by Claude Lorrain

Landscape with Apollo and the Muses 2

Three Archers And A Figure With A Spear Print by Claude Lorrain

Three Archers and a Figure with a Spear

The Rest On The Flight Into Egypt Print by Claude Lorrain

The Rest on The Flight into Egypt

Tiber Landscape With Castel Sant'angelo In The Background Print by Claude Lorrain

Tiber Landscape with Castel Sant'Angelo in the Background

Tiber Landscape North Of Rome With Dark Cloudy Sky Print by Claude Lorrain

Tiber Landscape North of Rome with Dark Cloudy Sky

Meeting Of Aeneas With The Son Of Euandros Print by Claude Lorrain

Meeting of Aeneas with the son of Euandros

Claude Lorrain

Disembarkation of Aeneas and his companions

Claude Lorrain

Tree with Roman ruins

Claude Lorrain

Trees

Claude Lorrain

Trees at the forest edge

Claude Lorrain

Trees and vines

Claude Lorrain

Study of trees

Claude Lorrain

Study of trees

Claude Lorrain

Campagna Landscape

Claude Lorrain

Campo Vaccino and Constantine Basilica

Claude Lorrain

The Tiber in Rome

Claude Lorrain

The hunting of Aeneas

Claude Lorrain

Thetis and the Centaur Chiron

Claude Lorrain

The Pyramid of Cestius

Claude Lorrain

Landscape with group of trees on water

Claude Lorrain

Landscape with the Adoration of the Golden Calf

Claude Lorrain

Landscape with Figures

Claude Lorrain

Landscape with round tower and Bay

Claude Lorrain

Bare branches

Claude Lorrain

Oxen in front of a mountain lake

Claude Lorrain

Resting under a tree shepherd

Claude Lorrain

Rape of Europa

Claude Lorrain

Study of an oak

Claude Lorrain

Tiber landscape

Claude Lorrain

Willow stumps on river shore

Claude Lorrain

Two deer

Illustrations

Time, Apollo And The Seasons Print by Claude Lorrain

Time, Apollo and the Seasons

Claude Lorrain

The port with the hall

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Landscape With Apollo And The Muses Print by Claude Lorrain

Landscape with Apollo and the Muses

Claude Lorrain (French: [klod lɔ.ʁɛ̃]; born Claude Gellée [ʒəle], dit le Lorrain; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) 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.

Biography

The earliest biographies of Claude are found in Joachim von Sandrart's Teutsche Academie (1675) and Filippo Baldinucci's Notizie de' professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua (1682–1728). Both Sandrart and Baldinucci knew the painter personally.[1] Claude's tombstone gives 1600 as his year of birth, but contemporary sources indicate a later date, circa 1604 or 1605.[2] He was born in the small village of Chamagne, Vosges, then part of the Duchy of Lorraine. He was the third of five sons of Jean Gellée and Anne Padose. According to Baldinucci, Claude's parents both died when he was twelve years old, and he then lived at Freiburg with an elder brother (Jean Gellée). Jean was an artist and taught Claude the rudiments of his profession. Claude then travelled to Italy, first working for Goffredo Wals in Naples, then joining the workshop of Agostino Tassi in Rome. Sandrart's account of Claude's early years, however, is quite different. According to it, Claude did not do well at the village school and was apprenticed to a pastry baker. With a company of fellow cooks and bakers, Claude travelled to Rome and was eventually employed as servant and cook by Tassi, who at some point taught him drawing and painting. While the details of Claude's pre-1620s life remain unclear, most modern scholars agree that he was apprenticed to Wals around 1620–22, and to Tassi from circa 1622/23 to 1625. Finally, Baldinucci reports that in 1625 Claude undertook a voyage back to Lorraine to study with Claude Deruet, but left his studio comparatively soon, in 1626 or 1627. He returned to Rome and settled in a house in the Via Margutta, near the Spanish Steps and Trinita dei Monti.[3]

On his travels, Claude briefly stayed in Marseilles, Genoa, and Venice, and had the opportunity to study nature in France, Italy, and Bavaria. Sandrart met Claude in late 1620s and reported that by then the artist had a habit of sketching outdoors, particularly at dawn and at dusk, making oil studies on the spot. The first dated painting by Claude, Landscape with Cattle and Peasants (Philadelphia Museum of Art) from 1629, already shows well-developed style and technique. In the next few years his reputation was growing steadily, as evidenced by commissions from the French ambassador in Rome (1633) and the King of Spain (1634–35). Baldinucci reported that a particularly important commission came from Cardinal Bentivoglio, who was impressed by the two landscapes Claude painted for him, and recommended the artist to Pope Urban VIII.[4] Four paintings were made for the Pope in 1635–38. From this point, Claude's reputation was secured. He went on to fulfill many important commissions, both Italian and international. In 1636 he started cataloguing his works, making tinted outline drawings in six paper books prepared for this purpose of all pictures sent to different countries, and on the back of each drawing he wrote the name of the purchaser. These volumes Claude named the Liber Veritatis.[5]

In 1650 Claude moved to a neighboring house in Via Paolina (today Via del Babuino), where he lived until his death. The artist never married, but adopted an orphan child, Agnese, in 1658; she may have been Claude's own daughter with a servant of the same name. Sons of Claude's brothers joined the household in 1662 (Jean, son of Denis Gellée) and around 1680 (Joseph, son of Melchior Gellée).[3] In 1663 Claude, who suffered much from gout,[6] fell seriously ill, his condition becoming so serious that he even drafted a last will, but he managed to recover. He was painting less after 1670, but works completed after that date include important pictures such as Coast View with Perseus and the Origin of Coral (1674), painted for the celebrated arts patron Camillo Massimo,[7] and Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia, Claude's last painting, commissioned by Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna. The artist died in his house on 23 November 1682. He was originally buried in Trinita dei Monti, but his remains were moved in 1840 to San Luigi dei Francesi.[3]

Critical assessment and legacy
Claude Lorrain - An Artist Studying from Nature

As seen in his painting The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba, Claude was innovative in including the sun itself as a source of light in his paintings.[8]

In Rome, it was not until the mid-17th century that landscapes were deemed fit for serious painting. Northern Europeans working there, such as Elsheimer and Brill, had made such views pre-eminent in some of their paintings (as well as Da Vinci in his private drawings [1] or Baldassarre Peruzzi in his decorative frescoes of vedute); but not until Annibale Carracci and his pupil Domenichino do we see landscape become the focus of a canvas by a major Italian artist. Even with the latter two, as with Claude, the stated themes of the paintings were mythic or religious. Landscape as a subject was distinctly un-classical and secular. The former quality was not consistent with Renaissance art, which boasted its rivalry with the work of the ancients. The second quality had less public patronage in Counter-Reformation Rome, which prized subjects worthy of "high painting," typically religious or mythic scenes. Pure landscape, like pure still-life or genre painting, reflected an aesthetic viewpoint regarded as lacking in moral seriousness. Rome, the theological and philosophical center of 17th century Italian art, was not quite ready for such a break with tradition.

In this matter of the importance of landscape, Claude was prescient. Living in a pre-Romantic era, he did not depict those uninhabited panoramas that were to be esteemed in later centuries, such as with Salvatore Rosa. He painted a pastoral world of fields and valleys not distant from castles and towns. If the ocean horizon is represented, it is from the setting of a busy port. Perhaps to feed the public need for paintings with noble themes, his pictures include demigods, heroes and saints, even though his abundant drawings and sketchbooks prove that he was more interested in scenography.

Claude Lorrain was described as kind to his pupils and hard-working; keenly observant, but an unlettered man until his death.

John Constable described Claude 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".[9]

Landscape with Merchants (The Shipwreck) (1630) - National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Landscape with Goatherd (1636) - National Gallery, London
The Ford (1636) - Metropolitan Museum, NY
Port with Villa Medici (1637) - Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Finding of Moses (1638) - Oil on canvas, 209 x 138 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid
Pastoral Landscape, (1638) Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Seaport (1639) - National Gallery, London
Seaport at Sunset (Odysseus) (1639) - Oil on canvas, 119 x 150 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Village Fête, (1639) - Oil on canvas, 103 x 135 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
View of Campagna (c. 1639) - Oil on canvas, 101.6 x 135.9 cm, Royal Collections
Embarkation of Saint Paula Romana at Ostia (1639) - Oil on canvas, 211 x 145 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid
The Embarkation of St. Ursula (1641) - National Gallery, London
The Disembarkation of Cleopatra at Tarsus (1642) - oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
The Disembarkation of Cleopatra at Tarsus (1642–43) - Oil on canvas, 119 x 170 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
The Trojan Women Setting Fire to their Fleet - Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Brook and Two Bridges - Oil on canvas, 74 x 58 cm,
Voyage of Jacob
The Angel's Visit
View of the Church Santa Trinità Dei Monti - drawing, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Seaport with Castle - Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
View of Tivoli at Sunset (1644) – San Francisco Museum of Art
Mercury Stealing Apollo's Oxen (1645) - Oil on canvas, 55 x 45 cm, Galleria Doria-Pamphilj, Rome
Landscape with Cephalus and Procris reunited by Diana (1645) - Oil on canvas, 102 x 132 cm, National Gallery, London
The Judgement of Paris (1645–46) - National Gallery of Art at Washington D.C.
Sunrise (1646–47) - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (1648) - National Gallery, London
Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah (1648) - National Gallery, London
Landscape with Paris and Oenone (1648) - Oil on canvas, 119 x 150 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Landscape with Dancing Figures (The Mill) (1648) - Oil on canvas, 150,6 x 197,8 cm, Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome
View of La Crescenza (1648–50) - Oil on canvas, 38.7 x 58.1 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Landscape with Apollo and the Cumaean Sybil (ca. 1650) - Oil on canvas, 99,5 x 125 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1651 or 1661) - Oil on canvas, 113 x 157 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Landscape with Mercury and Battus (1654) - Oil on canvas, 74 x 98 cm, Swiss private collection
Landscape with Hagar and the Angel (1654) - Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 76 cm, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin.
Landscape with Acis and Galatea (1657) - Oil on canvas, 100 x 135 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Landscape with Apollo and Mercury (1660) - Oil on canvas, 74,5 x 110,5 cm, Wallace Collection, London
Landscape with a dance (The Marriage of Isaac and Rebeccah (1663) – Drawing[2]
The Father of Psyche Sacrificing at the Temple of Apollo (1663)- Oil on canvas, 5'9" x 7'5", one of the Altieri Claudes Anglesey Abbey, UK
Landscape with Psyche Outside the Palace of Cupid (1664)- Oil on canvas, National Gallery, London
Coast Scene with the Rape of Europa (1667) - Oil on canvas, 134,6 x 101,6 cm, Royal Collection, London
The Expulsion of Hagar (1668) - Oil on canvas, 107 x 140 cm, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Seaport (1674) - Oil on canvas, 72 x 96 cm, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
The Landing of Aeneas (1675) - Oil on canvas 5'9" x 7'5", one of the Altieri Claudes Anglesey Abbey, UK
Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia (1682) - Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
View of a Seaport - The Huntington Library, San Marino, California

See also

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References

Sonnabend, Whiteley, 2011, 9.
Sonnabend, Whiteley, 2011, 18.
Sonnabend, Whiteley, 2011, 19.
Sonnabend, Whiteley, 2011, 28.
Chisholm 1911.
Sonnabend, Whiteley, 2011, 15.
Claude Lorrain – Coast View with Perseus and the Origin of Coral
Buchholz, E. L. , S. Kaeppele, K. Hille, and I. Stotland. Art, a world history. Harry N. Abrams, 232. Print.

Beckett, Discourses, pp. 52–53;

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Claude of Lorraine". Encyclopædia Britannica 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Further reading

Chiarini, Marco. 1968. Claude Lorrain – Selected Drawings. Pennsylvania State University Press.
Dullea, Owen J. 1887 Claude Gellée de Lorrain. New York, Scribner and Wellford.
Kitson, Michael. 1978. Claude Lorrain, Liber veritatis. British Museum Publications, London.
Lagerlöf, Margaretha Rossholm. 1990. Ideal Landscape: Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain. New Haven, Yale University Press.
Russel, H. Diane. 1982. Claude Lorrain, 1600–1682. New York, George Braziller.
Sonnabend, Martin and Whiteley, Jon, with Ruemelin, Christian. 2011. Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape. Farnham: Lund Humphries; in association with the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Mannocci, Lino. 1988, The Etchings of Claude Lorrain. Yale University Press.

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