Landscape with Roman Ruins
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 13 1/8 x 15 3/16 in. (33.4 x 38.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947
Accession Number
47.100.818
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the sunlit serenity of *Landscape with Roman Ruins an exquisite etching after the 17th-century master Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée), rendered by Scottish engraver William Miller around 1820–82. Lorrain, a pioneer of the classical landscape genre, captured the poetic harmony of ancient Roman ruins amid lush pastoral scenes—here evoking crumbling arches, graceful trees, wandering women, and grazing cows. This print, measuring 13 1/8 x 15 3/16 inches, preserves Lorrain's signature "Lorrain glass" effect: a luminous, atmospheric glow that bathes the composition in golden light, blending...
About the Artist
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)|William Miller · 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...