The Country Dance (Small Plate) (La danse sous les arbres)

The Country Dance (Small Plate) (La danse sous les arbres) by Claude Lorrain

Medium

etching

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Accession Number

1977.77.1

About the Artist

Claude Lorrain · 16041682

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...

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