Claude lorrain painting

A wooded Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Oil on canvas 39 1/2 x 53 1/2 (100.3 x 135.9 cm) View of Tivoli at Sunset - Claude Lorrain 1644 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco The Legion of Honor legionofhonor.famsf.org Lincoln Park | 100 34th Avenue | San Francisco, California 94121 USA

This composition is faithfully reproduced as drawing no. 8 in Claude's Liber Veritatis, where he kept a record of each of his major paintings in an effort to prevent forgeries. The verso of the drawing is inscribed in Claude's hand: "Claudio fecit in VR," and below it, "faict pour paris" (Claude made it in the city of Rome for Paris)

Claude Gellée, called Le Lorrain, was apprenticed to a pastry chef in his native France, but in 1628 he moved to Rome and studied painting. This work is the best example from his brilliant, pivotal years between 1635 and 1640. His compositions from that time express an awareness of light and its effects gained from his direct experience with nature. Claude was the supreme master of the ideal landscape and the founder of the modern landscape tradition. Previously, landscape as such wasn’t…

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