Medium
Pen, sepia ink and wash with white gouache heightening on blue paper
Dimensions
7 7/8 x 10 1/4 in. (20 x 26 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.659
Tags
About the Artist
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)|Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi · 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...