Sketch of Foliage and Branches
Claude Lorrain
c. 1645–50
Medium
Black chalk, white and gray gouache, on tan laid paper, laid down on perimeter to cream wove card
Dimensions
39.3 × 23.2 cm (15 1/2 × 9 3/16 in.)
Classification
gouache
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
4949
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...