Ruiterstandbeeld van de keizer van het Heilige Roomse Rijk
Claude Lorrain
1637
Medium
etching
Dimensions
193; 137
About this artwork
collector's mark: Lugt 132
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...