Study for Pilgrims at Emmaus
Claude Lorrain
c. 1652
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, and lead white (discolored), on buff laid paper
Dimensions
16.8 × 23.5 cm (6 5/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
7556
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...