Coast Scene with the Port of Santa Marinella
Medium
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash with white heightening
Dimensions
Height: 10 15/16 in. (27.8 cm) Width: 14 1/16 in. (35.7 cm) Frame: 14 1/2 × 17 3/4 in. (36.8 × 45.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Debra and Leon D. Black, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2020
Accession Number
2020.80.2
About the Artist
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · 1604–1682
Claude Gellée was born around 1600 in the village of Chamagne in the Duchy of Lorraine, from which he would take the professional name by which history knows him: Claude Lorrain. Orphaned young, he traveled south to Rome as a teenager, eventually finding his way into the Naples workshop of Goffredo Wals before apprenticing with the Roman landscapist and fresco painter Agostino Tassi around 1622. F...