Seascape, after Claude Lorrain's "Liber Veritatis"

Seascape, after Claude Lorrain's "Liber Veritatis" by Ludovico Caracciolo|Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

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) · 15551619

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.

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