Landscape with Brigands (Scène de brigands)
Claude Lorrain
1633, printed later
Medium
etching and drypoint on thin laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 12.9 x 19.6 cm (5 1/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Anonymous Gift
Accession Number
1995.78.1
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...