Coast View with the Embarkation of Carlo and Ubaldo
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 13 9/16 x 17 13/16 in. (34.4 x 45.2 cm) sheet: 12 x 15 3/4 in. (30.5 x 40 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of George Hellman, 1942
Accession Number
42.65.116
Tags
About the Artist
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)|Arthur Pond|Pierre Charles Canot · 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...