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Perseus and the Origin of Coral
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Perseus and the Origin of Coral

Medium

Black chalk, sepia and black ink, sepia and gray wash heightened with white

Dimensions

10 x 12 13/16 in. (25.4 x 32.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Classification

Drawings

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Rights

Public Domain

About Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

1604–1682Duchy 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.