Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
ca. 1635
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk
Dimensions
7 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (19. x 26.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1907
Accession Number
07.282.1
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
AnimalsMenWomenLandscapesTrees
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...