Le Soleil levant
Claude Lorrain
1634
Medium
etching
Dimensions
198; 132
About this artwork
Een havenpoort met aan elke zijde een toren, in de verte grote zeilschepen. In de haven een aantal kleine bootjes, op de kade een gezelschap met koffers.
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...