Landscape
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 7 5/16 x 10 1/4 in. (18.6 x 26 cm) plate: 6 7/8 x 9 3/4 in. (17.5 x 24.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960
Accession Number
60.620.123
Tags
Art Historical Context
This enchanting lithograph, titled *Landscape* and dated around 1811, bridges the golden age of 17th-century landscape painting with the innovative printmaking of the early 19th century. features the masterful vision of Claude LorrainClaude Gellée), French Baroque artist renowned for his luminous, idealized seascapes and pastoral scenes infused with classical mythology and poetic light. Here, German lithographer Johann Nepom Strixner faithfully reproduces Lorrain's, capturing the delicate interplay of atmosphere, foliage, and distant horizons that defined the artist's influential style. Litho...
About the Artist
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)|Johann Nepomuk Strixner · 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...