A Rocky Hillside
1635/1636
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush with brown, pink, and green wash, heightened with white gouache, over traces of red chalk, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
20.9 × 27.6 cm (8 1/4 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
74186
About the Artist
Claude Lorrain · 1604–1682
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 s...