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
Rights
Public Domain
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...