Dancers and Musicians Before Village with Ruined Tower
Claude Lorrain
n.d.
Medium
Red chalk over traces of graphite with pen and brown ink border, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
32.1 × 22 cm (12 11/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
109113
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...