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The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet

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The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

ca. 1643

Medium

Oil on canvas

Tags

Aeneid Women Ships

Dimensions

41 3/8 x 59 7/8 in. (105.1 x 152.1 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Fletcher Fund, 1955

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

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.

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