Claude Lorrain, selfportrait of the French Baroque landscape artist
Artists Claude Lorrain Claude Lorrain French Painter Born: c.1604 - Chamagne, Duchy of Lorraine, Vosges (now France) Died: November 23, 1682 - Rome, Papal States Movements and Styles: The Baroque , Naturalism Claude Lorrain Summary Accomplishments Important Art Biography Influences and Connections Useful Resources Similar Art and Related Pages Portrait of Claude, possibly a self-portrait, used as a frontispiece to the Liber Veritatis; almost half-length, turned to front and slightly to right, and looking to front Pen and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white, strengthened with gum, over black chalk, on blue paper; on an 18thc mount Producer name Drawn by: Claude Lorrain (?) Claude Gellée--known as Claude Lorrain from his birthplace, the duchy of Lorraine--was born in 1604/1605 to a humble family in the village of Chamagne, not far from Nancy. He was probably in his early teens when he left Lorraine for Rome, and according to his friend and first biographer Joachim von Sandrart, he had been trained as a pastry cook. It is unique among Claude's paintings in that it is an accurate portrait of an existing building, a fortified casale to the north of Ponte Molle, within walking distance of Rome. As natural as the setting seems to be, La Crescenza stands on a high rocky outcropping, rather than, as here, in a dell, and the arrangement of the lush foreground.
English: Self-Portrait by Claude Gellée, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours. Source: pinterest: Author: Claude Lorrain (1604/1605-1682) Alternative names: Claude Gellée, dit « le Lorrain », Claude Gillée, Claudio Lorena, Claude Le Lorrain, Claude, Claudio, Claudius. Description: Lorrainer painter, drawer and printmaker: Portrait of Claude, possibly a self-portrait by Claude Lorrain, after Joachim Von Sandrart | The British Museum Images. View and buy royalty free and rights managed stock photos at The British Museum Images. A Rocky Hillside, 1635/1636 Claude Lorrain The Roman Forum, 1636 Claude Lorrain Classical Landscape - Tivoli, 1636 Claude Lorrain Scene of Brigands, 1633 Claude Lorrain See all 40 artworks Explore Further Most Similar Naturalism Prints and drawing France Claude and Poussin were close friends in Rome and both played key roles in developing the tradition of Classical landscape painting. In contrast to the stoic themes, elegiac spirit, and extreme weather sometimes found in his countryman's landscapes, however, Claude sticks close to the idealized, harmonious nature of an imagined Golden Age, most tellingly revealed during a sunrise or sunset
Claude Lorraine (16001682) Lorraine, Claude, A4 Poster, Poster Prints
Claude Lorrain (born 1600, Chamagne, France—died Nov. 23, 1682, Rome [Italy]) French artist best known for, and one of the greatest masters of, ideal landscape painting, an art form that seeks to present a view of nature more beautiful and harmonious than nature itself. The quality of that beauty is governed by Classical concepts, and the landscape often contains Classical ruins and pastoral. Self-Portrait. Oil on canvas. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours. Richard Earlom (British, 1743-1822), after Claude Lorrain (French, c. 1600-1682).. Liber veritatis: or, A collection of prints, after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain ; in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, 1777-1819. New York Public Library, New. Self Portrait - Claude Lorrain (Gellee) - WikiGallery.org, the largest gallery in the world: wikigallery - the largest virtaul gallery in the world with more than 150,000 on display. Always open and always free! Claude Lorrain; Self-portrait. One is the French Claude Lorrain (1600 - 1682). The other is the English J.M.W. Turner ( 1775 - 1851). Both Turner and Lorrain are primarily landscape (and seascape) painters. My mother introduced me ot the work of Turner. I then discovered Lorrain in Room 15 of the National Gallery in London.
