The Tempest (La Tempête)
Claude Lorrain
1630
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 12.8 × 17.7 cm (5 1/16 × 6 15/16 in.) sheet: 13.5 × 18.1 cm (5 5/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2019.128.1
About the Artist
Claude Lorrain · 1604–1682
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 s...