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Claude Lorraine
(French, 1600 — 1682)
Italian Landscape
Inventory Number: 1225
Oil on canvas.
41.5 x 32.5 inches (105.5 x 83 cm)
Lorraine was one of the greatest masters of landscape painting, presenting nature more beautiful and harmonious than nature itself. The quality of that beauty is governed by classical concepts, and the landscape often contains classical ruins and pastoral figures in classical dress. The source of his inspiration was the countryside around Rome. Lorraine, whose special contribution to art was the poetic rendering of light, was particularly influential not only during the 17th century, but during well into the mid-19th century.
Size can be commissioned smaller or larger.
Collection of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.