Time, Apollo and the Seasons
1662
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 18.3 × 25 cm (7 1/4 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet, cut within platemark: 20 × 26.2 cm (7 7/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
53214
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Claude did less etching after 1640, when his reputation was established and he received a number of important painting commissions. Of the more than forty prints in his oeuvre, only five are dated after 1650.
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...