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
Rights
Public Domain
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.