Landscape with Ruins, Pastoral Figures, and Trees
c. 1650
Medium
pen and brown ink with graphite and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on apricot-prepared paper
Dimensions
overall: 20.2 x 26.6 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Syma Busiel Fund and Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Accession Number
1976.8.1
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...