Rape of Europa
Medium
Mezzotint with etching
Dimensions
sheet: 9 13/16 x 15 7/8 in. (24.9 x 40.3 cm) plate: 8 1/8 x 10 1/4 in. (20.7 x 26 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Museum Accession, transferred from the Library
Accession Number
62.695.132
Tags
About the Artist
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)|Richard Earlom|John Boydell · 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...