Seascape, after Claude Lorrain's "Liber Veritatis"
Medium
Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink
Dimensions
Plate: 8 3/8 × 10 11/16 in. (21.2 × 27.2 cm) Sheet: 10 5/8 × 12 3/8 in. (27 × 31.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1986
Accession Number
1986.1180.1523
About the Artist
Ludovico Caracciolo|Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · 1555–1619
Lodovico's style is charaterized by being less classical than that of his younger cousins, Agostino and Annibale, his figures have a sense of other-worldliness, and he is more influenced by Mannerist art than his cousins. Like his cousins, he espoused the direct study of nature, especially through figure drawing; he was influenced by the paintings of Correggio and the Venetians.