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A landscape with a monk and an angel in the center, a town to the left (The Vision)
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A landscape with a monk and an angel in the center, a town to the left (The Vision)

Dimensions

sheet: 4 3/16 x 6 7/8 in. (10.7 x 17.4 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

1604–1682Duchy of Lorraine

Claude Lorrain (c. 1600-1682), born Claude Gellée in the village of Chamagne in northeastern France's Duchy of Lorraine, stands as one of the most influential landscape painters in Western art history. Orphaned by age twelve, his journey to artistic mastery was unconventional—beginning with apprenticeships in pastry-making and inlay work before destiny led him to Rome around 1620, where he would spend nearly his entire career.