The Shipwreck
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
ca. 1638–41
Medium
Etching, fifth state of five (Mannocci)
Dimensions
sheet: 5 1/8 x 7 5/16 in. (13 x 18.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985
Accession Number
1986.1180.519
Tags
RuinsStormsHuman FiguresShipwrecksWaves
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...