Harbor Scene with a Lighthouse
1638–41
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet, cut within platemark: 14.5 × 20.4 cm (5 3/4 × 8 1/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
133358
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Claude arrived in Rome around 1613 and apprenticed himself to Agostino Tassi, a landscape painter. Except for a brief return to his native Nancy in 1627, he remained in Rome for the rest of his life.
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...