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Claude Lorrain The Punishment of Midas c. 1620
Copper, 43 x 62 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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Claude Lorrain View of a Port with the Capitol (mk05) Canvas 22 x 28 1/4 ''(56 x 72 cm)Seized in the Revolution from the collection of the Duc de Brissac
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Claude Lorrain View of the Campo Vaccino ()mk05 Canvas 22 x 28 1/4''(56 x 72 cm)Seized in the Revolution from the collection of the Brissac INV
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Claude Lorrain Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father (mk05) Canvas,47 x 59''(119 x 150 cm)Acquired by Louis XIV from the Duc de Richelieu in 1665
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Claude Lorrain Landscape with Cephalus and Procris reunited by Diana (mk08) 1645
Oil on canvas
102x132cm
London,National Gallery
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Claude Lorrain Landscape with Apollo and Mercury (mk08) C.1645
Oil on canvas.
55x45cm
Rome,Galleria Doria-Pamphilj
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Claude Lorrain Seaport at Sunrise (mk08) 1674
Oil on canvas
72x96cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemalde-sammlungen,Alte Pinakothek
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Claude Lorrain St Peter's (mk17) 1630/35 Pen drawing and wash.Teylers Museum,Haarlem
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Claude Lorrain St Peter's,Rome (mk17) 1640/41 Chalk drawing and ink wash.British Museum,London
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Claude Lorrain Rome with St Peter's (mk17) 1646 Brush drawing.British Museum,London 21.2 x 31.4 cm
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Claude Lorrain View on the Capitoline Hill,Rome (mk17) 1635/40 Pen drawing and wash British Museum,London 20.3 x 26.6 cm
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Claude Lorrain Christmas Procession at S.Maria Maggiore,Rome (mk17) 1674 Pen and ink.British Museum ,London
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Claude Lorrain Landscape with Figures Before (mk17) Pen drawing and wash.British Museum,London 14.9 x 20.9 cm
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Claude Lorrain Civitavecchia (mk17) C 1638 Pen drawing and wash Kupferstichkabinett,Staatliche Museen,Berlin
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Claude Lorrain Two Frigates (mk17) 1638/39 Pen drawing and wash.The Art Institute of Chicago
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Claude Lorrain Two Boats (mk17) 1635/50 Chalk drawing and ink wash.British Museum,London
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Claude Lorrain A Brook in Subiaco (mk17) 1637 Brush drawing British Museum,London 23.8 x 39.5 cm
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Claude Lorrain View of the Sasso (mk17) Pen and ink.The Art Institute of Chicago 16.2 x 40.2 cm
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Claude Lorrain Wooded View (mk17) 1635/40 Chalk drawing and ink wash Graphische Sammlung,Albertina,Vienna 22.5 x 32.5 cm
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Claude Lorrain River View with Trees (mk17) 1635/40 Brush drawing,heightened with white Museum of Fine Arts,Boston 32.8 x 21.8 cm
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Claude Lorrain
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French
1600-1682
Claude Lorrain Galleries
In Rome, not until the mid-17th century were landscapes deemed fit for serious painting. Northern Europeans, such as the Germans Elsheimer and Brill, had made such views pre-eminent in some of their paintings (as well as Da Vinci in his private drawings 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 Lorrain, the stated themes of the paintings were mythic or religious. Landscape as a subject was distinctly unclassical and secular. The former quality was not consonant 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, Lorrain 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.
Lorrain was described as kind to his pupils and hard-working; keenly observant, but an unlettered man until his death. The painter Joachim von Sandrart is an authority for Claude's life (Academia Artis Pictoriae, 1683); Baldinucci, who obtained information from some of Claude's immediate survivors, relates various incidents to a different effect (Notizie dei professoni del disegno).
John Constable described Claude Lorrain as "the most perfect landscape painter the world ever saw", and declared that in Claude??s landscape "all is lovely ?C all amiable ?C all is amenity and repose; the calm sunshine of the heart"
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