Two Frigate
Claude Lorrain
1641
Medium
Pen and iron gall ink, and brush and brown wash, with graphite, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
31.9 × 22.4 cm (12 9/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
59886
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...