The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (recto); The Arch of Titus, Camp Vaccino (verso)
17th century
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
About the Artist
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · 1604–1682
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...