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  1. Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 623. The hazy atmospheres of Claude’s landscapes evoke the start or end of a summer’s day. His characteristic style contrasts intense light in the background with lyrical shadow in the foreground.

  2. Claude Lorrain was described as kind to his pupils and hard-working; keenly observant, but an unlettered man until his death. John Constable described Claude as "the most perfect landscape painter the world ever saw", and declared that in Claude's landscape "all is lovely – all amiable – all is amenity and repose; the calm sunshine of the ...

  3. Pastoral Landscape dates from Claude's first mature period and is generally considered the finest extant painting of his brilliant and seminal years between 1635 and 1640. It is also the...

    • Claude Gellée (Called Le Lorrain)
  4. Pastoral Landscape. Date. 1646-47. Culture. French. Medium. Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 102.4 x 132.7 cm (40-3/8 x 52-1/4 in.) Accession Number. 1969:002. Credit Line. Claude Lorrain, Pastoral Landscape, 1646-47, oil on canvas, 102.4 x 132.7 cm (40-3/8 x 52-1/4 in.), Putnam Foundation, Timken Museum of Art. Share. Print. Enlarge. Description.

  5. Having lived in Rome in 1643-44, he might have discussed this commission with Claude and then remained in contact with the artist after he returned to France. Claude Gellée, known as Claude Lorrain (1600 or 1604/05 – 1682) 1644. Oil on canvas – H. 98 cm; W. 137 cm – Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, MG152 – Acquired by the city of ...

  6. This ideal landscape view from late in Claude’s career, when he often looked back to his earlier compositions, is pervaded by a sense of nostalgia. With its classical ruins and carefully...

  7. Claude was the supreme master of the ideal landscape and the founder of the modern landscape tradition. Previously, landscape as such wasn’t considered a subject worthy of painting. Claude’s influence was felt for hundreds of years by countless artists, including Claude Monet.

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