The Round Tower Ruptured to Reveal the Statue of the King of the Romans
Medium
Etching; second state of two (Mannocci)
Dimensions
7 5/8 x 5 3/8 in. (19.4 x 13.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Marianne and Paul Gourary Gift, 1999
Accession Number
1999.361
Tags
TowersKingsHorses
About the Artist
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)|Manuel de Moura · 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...