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Departure for the Fields

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

ca. 1638–41

Medium

Etching; third state of four (Mannocci)

Tags

Human FiguresBridgesCowsGoatsTrees

Dimensions

sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 5/8 in. (14 x 19.3 cm) plate: 5 1/16 x 7 3/16 in. (12.8 x 18.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Charles Pratt, 1957

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

1604–1682 • Duchy 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.

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