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Study of a Group of Trees
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Study of a Group of Trees

Medium

Pen and brown ink

Tags

Dimensions

Sheet: 9 3/16 in. × 8 in. (23.4 × 20.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

1604–1682Duchy of Lorraine

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 spend nearly his entire career.