Artheon LogoArtheon
Loading...
The Shipwreck
Click to view fullscreen

The Shipwreck

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

ca. 1638–41

Medium

Etching, fourth state of five

Tags

RuinsHuman FiguresShipwrecksWavesStorms

Dimensions

Sheet: 5 3/8 × 7 5/8 in. (13.7 × 19.3 cm) Image: 4 7/8 × 7 1/16 in. (12.4 × 17.9 cm) Plate: 5 1/8 × 7 1/4 in. (13 × 18.4 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Anne Wikler Mininberg, in honor of David T. Mininberg, M. D., 2013

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

1604–1682 • Duchy of Lorraine

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 spend nearly his entire career.

Explore More

More from Baroque →More in Etching, fourth state of five from The Metropolitan Museum of Art →

Related Artworks

Discover similar artworks

The Little Charlatans

The Little Charlatans

1773

Portrait, after Van Dyck

Portrait, after Van Dyck

1770

Portrait, after Van Dyck

Portrait, after Van Dyck

1770

Bain-froid Chevrier (Chevrier's cold bath establishment, or The School Baths, Paris)

Bain-froid Chevrier (Chevrier's cold bath establishment, or The School Baths, Paris)

1864

Brumes du matin

Brumes du matin

1882

Christ Before Pilate: the large plate

Christ Before Pilate: the large plate

1636

Varie Figuræ et Probæ

Varie Figuræ et Probæ

1645

Lot and his Daughters

Lot and his Daughters

1620–40

Carl Fredrik Liljevalch

Carl Fredrik Liljevalch

1909

Farms, cattle with herdsmen and milkmaids in the foreground from Multifariarum casularum ruriumque lineamenta curiose ad vivum expressa

Farms, cattle with herdsmen and milkmaids in the foreground from Multifariarum casularum ruriumque lineamenta curiose ad vivum expressa

1559–61

Mary Villiers, Dutchess of Lennox and Richmond

Mary Villiers, Dutchess of Lennox and Richmond

1645–50

Title-page for the 'Vedute di Roma' comprising a stone in the background inscribed with the title, a classical vase and fragments of columns in the foreground

Title-page for the 'Vedute di Roma' comprising a stone in the background inscribed with the title, a classical vase and fragments of columns in the foreground

1760–78

More by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

Explore other works by this artist

Seascape, after Claude Lorrain's "Liber Veritatis"

Seascape, after Claude Lorrain's "Liber Veritatis"

1815

Architectural Capriccio with an Obelisk

Architectural Capriccio with an Obelisk

ca. 1750–59

Architectural Capriccio with a Palace seen through a Triumphal Arch

Architectural Capriccio with a Palace seen through a Triumphal Arch

ca. 1750–59

Bellerophon Vanquishing the Chimera

Bellerophon Vanquishing the Chimera

1668

Vignette for the first chant of Roland Furieux

Vignette for the first chant of Roland Furieux

18th century

Coast Scene with the Port of Santa Marinella

Coast Scene with the Port of Santa Marinella

1638

Coast Scene with a View of Civitavecchia

Coast Scene with a View of Civitavecchia

1638

Trees

Trees

ca. 1650

Roman Landscape

Roman Landscape

mid to late 17th century

Landscape with Sheep

Landscape with Sheep

ca. 1648

Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt

1645

Perseus and the Origin of Coral

Perseus and the Origin of Coral

ca. 1671