Search results for: “Claude Lorrain”
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Eye Candy for Today: Claude Lorrain drawing of an oak tree
Study of an Oak Tree, Claude Lorrain Roughly 13 x 9 inches (33 x 22 cm), pen and brown ink, brown wash, over graphite. Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version here, as part of this article on the Claudian Landscape; original is in the British Museum. 17th century French painter…
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Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape
Claude Gellée, also known as Claude Lorrain (from his birthplace, the Duchy of Lorraine, once an independent nation in what it currently northeastern France), or simply as “Claude” (rhymes with “road”), was the most important landscape painter in the 17th century, and one of the most important and influential in the history of the genre.…
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Claude Lorrain
Landscape has always had a place in Western art, but it wasn’t until the 17th Century that it came to the foreground, so to speak. French master Claude Lorrain is one of history’s great landscape painters. His name was actually Claude Gellée. He is better know by Lorrain, from Lorraine, the region of his birth,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Claude landscape with mythological figures
Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing, Claude Lorrain On Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Original is in the Toledo Museum of Art. Hi-res file on Wikimedia Commons. See my previous posts on Claude Lorrain, and here.
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Clark Institute image resource
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown MA was started as a museum to house their extensive art collection, and now includes a library and research center. The museum has recently made over 2,700 images of works from their collection available for download. They’re not exactly “high resolution” but large enough to browse and…
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Robert Zünd
19th century Swiss painter Robert Zünd studied with several noted Swiss landscape painters, including Alexandre Calame and his teacher, François Diday. Carrying forward the emphasis on truth to nature of his teachers, Zünd became noted for his richly detailed landscapes, many of which were large in scale. He also was influenced by the study of…