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
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...