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Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna

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Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

ca. 1639

Medium

Oil on canvas

Tags

Rome Rivers Landscapes Cows

Dimensions

40 x 53 1/2 in. (101.6 x 135.9 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Adele L. Lehman, in memory of Arthur Lehman, 1965

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Rights

Public Domain

About Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

1604–1682 • Duchy of Lorraine

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 spend nearly his entire career.

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