Landscape with Brigands
Medium
Etching; fifth state of nine (Mannocci)
Dimensions
sheet: 5 9/16 x 8 3/8 in. (14.1 x 21.2 cm) plate: 5 1/16 x 7 7/8 in. (12.8 x 20 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.72.15
Tags
MenMountainsLandscapesTrees
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...