Rebecca and Eliezer taking leave of her father, Bethuel, set in a landscape, a large tree to the left
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
ca. 1640–45
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
image: 5 1/8 x 7 1/2 in. (13 x 19.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.394
Tags
Human FiguresBridgesLandscapesTrees
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...