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    French 1600-1682 Claude Lorrain Galleries In Rome, not until the mid-17th century were landscapes deemed fit for serious painting. Northern Europeans, such as the Germans Elsheimer and Brill, had made such views pre-eminent in some of their paintings (as well as Da Vinci in his private drawings or Baldassarre Peruzzi in his decorative frescoes of vedute); but not until Annibale Carracci and his pupil Domenichino do we see landscape become the focus of a canvas by a major Italian artist. Even with the latter two, as with Lorrain, the stated themes of the paintings were mythic or religious. Landscape as a subject was distinctly unclassical and secular. The former quality was not consonant with Renaissance art, which boasted its rivalry with the work of the ancients. The second quality had less public patronage in Counter-Reformation Rome, which prized subjects worthy of "high painting," typically religious or mythic scenes. Pure landscape, like pure still-life or genre painting, reflected an aesthetic viewpoint regarded as lacking in moral seriousness. Rome, the theological and philosophical center of 17th century Italian art, was not quite ready for such a break with tradition. In this matter of the importance of landscape, Lorrain was prescient. Living in a pre-Romantic era, he did not depict those uninhabited panoramas that were to be esteemed in later centuries, such as with Salvatore Rosa. He painted a pastoral world of fields and valleys not distant from castles and towns. If the ocean horizon is represented, it is from the setting of a busy port. Perhaps to feed the public need for paintings with noble themes, his pictures include demigods, heroes and saints, even though his abundant drawings and sketchbooks prove that he was more interested in scenography. Lorrain was described as kind to his pupils and hard-working; keenly observant, but an unlettered man until his death. The painter Joachim von Sandrart is an authority for Claude's life (Academia Artis Pictoriae, 1683); Baldinucci, who obtained information from some of Claude's immediate survivors, relates various incidents to a different effect (Notizie dei professoni del disegno). John Constable described Claude Lorrain as "the most perfect landscape painter the world ever saw", and declared that in Claude??s landscape "all is lovely ?C all amiable ?C all is amenity and repose; the calm sunshine of the heart"

Claude Lorrain Landscape with Mythological Figures (mk17) oil painting artist
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Landscape with Mythological Figures (mk17)
c 1650 Chalk drawing and ink wash Kupferstichkabinett,Staatliche Museen,Berlin 27.4 x 40.1 cm

     Painting ID::  22195
INCHES CM PRICE  
16x20 40x50 $69
20x24 50x60 $89
24x36 60x90 $139
30x40 75x100 $149
36x48 90x120 $219
48x72 120x180 $399
  Landscape_with_Mythological_Figures_(mk17)
c 1650 Chalk drawing and ink wash Kupferstichkabinett,Staatliche Museen,Berlin 27.4 x 40.1 cm

Claude Lorrain Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (mk17 oil painting artist
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Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (mk17
c 1650 Pen drawing and wash,heightened with white.Kupferstichkabinett,Staatliche Museen,Berlin 27.x 42 cm

     Painting ID::  22196
INCHES CM PRICE  
16x20 40x50 $69
20x24 50x60 $89
24x36 60x90 $139
30x40 75x100 $149
36x48 90x120 $219
48x72 120x180 $399
  Embarkation_of_the_Queen_of_Sheba_(mk17
c 1650 Pen drawing and wash,heightened with white.Kupferstichkabinett,Staatliche Museen,Berlin 27.x 42 cm

Claude Lorrain Landscape with Sheep (mk17) oil painting artist
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Landscape with Sheep (mk17)
1648 Brush and pen drawing The Metropolitan Museum of Art,Robert Lehman collection??New York 18.1 x 26.4 cm

     Painting ID::  22197
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16x20 40x50 $69
20x24 50x60 $89
24x36 60x90 $139
30x40 75x100 $149
36x48 90x120 $219
48x72 120x180 $399
  Landscape_with_Sheep_(mk17)
1648 Brush and pen drawing The Metropolitan Museum of Art,Robert Lehman collection??New York 18.1 x 26.4 cm

Claude Lorrain Sermon on the Mount (mk17) oil painting artist
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Sermon on the Mount (mk17)
c 1655 Brush drawing,heightened with white British Museum,London 29.6 x 42.2 cm

     Painting ID::  22198
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20x24 50x60 $89
24x36 60x90 $139
30x40 75x100 $149
36x48 90x120 $219
48x72 120x180 $399
  Sermon_on_the_Mount_(mk17)
c 1655 Brush drawing,heightened with white British Museum,London 29.6 x 42.2 cm

Claude Lorrain Landscape with Psyche (mk17) oil painting artist
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Landscape with Psyche (mk17)
1660 Pen drawing and wash.Musee Conde,Chantilly.25.1 x 38.8 cm

     Painting ID::  22199
INCHES CM PRICE  
16x20 40x50 $69
20x24 50x60 $89
24x36 60x90 $139
30x40 75x100 $149
36x48 90x120 $219
48x72 120x180 $399
  Landscape_with_Psyche_(mk17)
1660 Pen drawing and wash.Musee Conde,Chantilly.25.1 x 38.8 cm

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    French 1600-1682 Claude Lorrain Galleries In Rome, not until the mid-17th century were landscapes deemed fit for serious painting. Northern Europeans, such as the Germans Elsheimer and Brill, had made such views pre-eminent in some of their paintings (as well as Da Vinci in his private drawings or Baldassarre Peruzzi in his decorative frescoes of vedute); but not until Annibale Carracci and his pupil Domenichino do we see landscape become the focus of a canvas by a major Italian artist. Even with the latter two, as with Lorrain, the stated themes of the paintings were mythic or religious. Landscape as a subject was distinctly unclassical and secular. The former quality was not consonant with Renaissance art, which boasted its rivalry with the work of the ancients. The second quality had less public patronage in Counter-Reformation Rome, which prized subjects worthy of "high painting," typically religious or mythic scenes. Pure landscape, like pure still-life or genre painting, reflected an aesthetic viewpoint regarded as lacking in moral seriousness. Rome, the theological and philosophical center of 17th century Italian art, was not quite ready for such a break with tradition. In this matter of the importance of landscape, Lorrain was prescient. Living in a pre-Romantic era, he did not depict those uninhabited panoramas that were to be esteemed in later centuries, such as with Salvatore Rosa. He painted a pastoral world of fields and valleys not distant from castles and towns. If the ocean horizon is represented, it is from the setting of a busy port. Perhaps to feed the public need for paintings with noble themes, his pictures include demigods, heroes and saints, even though his abundant drawings and sketchbooks prove that he was more interested in scenography. Lorrain was described as kind to his pupils and hard-working; keenly observant, but an unlettered man until his death. The painter Joachim von Sandrart is an authority for Claude's life (Academia Artis Pictoriae, 1683); Baldinucci, who obtained information from some of Claude's immediate survivors, relates various incidents to a different effect (Notizie dei professoni del disegno). John Constable described Claude Lorrain as "the most perfect landscape painter the world ever saw", and declared that in Claude??s landscape "all is lovely ?C all amiable ?C all is amenity and repose; the calm sunshine of the heart"

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