Four Goats (Left Section of The Goats)
ca. 1630–33
Medium
Etching; second state of four (Mannocci)
Dimensions
sheet: 8 11/16 x 5 13/16 in. (22 x 14.8 cm) plate: 7 15/16 x 5 3/16 in. (20.2 x 13.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number
20.24.60
Tags
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...