The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (recto); The Arch of Titus, Camp Vaccino (verso)

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (recto); The Arch of Titus, Camp Vaccino (verso) by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

Medium

Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk (recto), pen and brown ink (verso)

Dimensions

sheet: 7 7/8 x 10 3/8 in. (20 x 26.4 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Anonymous Gift, 2006

Accession Number

2006.393.27a, b

Tags

DonkeysSaint JosephJesusVirgin Mary

About the Artist

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · 16041682

Claude Gellée was born around 1600 in the village of Chamagne in the Duchy of Lorraine, from which he would take the professional name by which history knows him: Claude Lorrain. Orphaned young, he traveled south to Rome as a teenager, eventually finding his way into the Naples workshop of Goffredo Wals before apprenticing with the Roman landscapist and fresco painter Agostino Tassi around 1622. F...

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