Claude Lorrain Landschaft mit der Nymphe Egeria und Konig Numa Painting ID:: 89518 new25/Claude Lorrain-938936.jpg
Landschaft mit der Nymphe Egeria und Konig Numa 1669(1669)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 155 x 199 cm
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Claude Lorrain Pastoral Landscape Painting ID:: 92677 new25/Claude Lorrain-563335.jpg
Pastoral Landscape Date c. 1636-7
Source Art Gallery of New South Wales
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Claude Lorrain Vedute von Delphi mit einer Opferprozession Painting ID:: 92774 new25/Claude Lorrain-494948.jpg
Vedute von Delphi mit einer Opferprozession Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 150 X 200 cm
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Claude Lorrain Landschaft mit Apollo, den Musen und einem Flubgott Painting ID:: 93611 new26/Claude Lorrain-864969.jpg
Landschaft mit Apollo, den Musen und einem Flubgott 1652(1652)
Landschaft mit Apollo, den Musen und einem Flußgott
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 185 x 290 cm
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Claude Lorrain Landscape with David at the Cave of Adullam Painting ID:: 93618 new26/Claude Lorrain-743744.jpg
Landscape with David at the Cave of Adullam 1658(1658)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 112 x 185 cm
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Claude Lorrain Village Fete Painting ID:: 94844 new26/Claude Lorrain-339456.jpg
Village Fete Oil on canvas
Dimensions 103 cm x 135 cm
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Claude Lorrain Pastoral Landscape Painting ID:: 96133 new26/Claude Lorrain-373596.jpg
Pastoral Landscape 1677(1677)
Medium oil on canvas
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Claude Lorrain The Trojan Women Set Fire to their Fleet Painting ID:: 96149 new26/Claude Lorrain-894985.jpg
The Trojan Women Set Fire to their Fleet ca. 1643
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 41 3/8 x 59 7/8 in
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Claude Lorrain Pastoral Landscape Painting ID:: 96544 new26/Claude Lorrain-649568.jpg
Pastoral Landscape oil on canvas
Dimensions 40.375 X 52.25 in
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Claude Lorrain The Embarkation of St Paula in Ostia Painting ID:: 97899 new26/Claude Lorrain-567784.jpg
The Embarkation of St Paula in Ostia Oil on canvas
Dimensions 211 x 145 cm
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Claude Lorrain Paisaje de un puerto Painting ID:: 98189 new26/Claude Lorrain-966397.jpg
Paisaje de un puerto circa 1633(1633)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 97.5 x 130.8 cm
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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"