Artist · 15 prints
Claude Lorrain Prints
About Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain (about 1604–1682), born Claude Gellée in the village of Chamagne in the Duchy of Lorraine, was a French painter who spent almost his whole career in Rome. He left home as a boy around 1612; early biographers say he trained as a pastry cook before working in Rome for the landscape painter Agostino Tassi. He settled for good in Rome around 1628, sketching the countryside with Nicolas Poussin. He died at his house in Rome on 23 November 1682.
Claude painted ideal landscapes and harbours bathed in golden, hazy light and small figures from myth or the Bible. To guard against forgeries he recorded his finished paintings in a book of drawings, the Liber Veritatis (Book of Truth), now in the British Museum. Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (1648) is in the National Gallery, London. English collectors loved his work, and J.M.W. Turner asked in his will that two of his own paintings hang beside two by Claude Lorrain in the National Gallery.
Claude Lorrain prints: reproductions of landscape paintings by the French painter Claude Lorrain, made in Rome between 1634 and 1673. The collection includes Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (1648), A Seaport at Sunset (1643), Pastoral Landscape with a Mill (1634), Landscape with Acis and Galatea (1657) and View of Delphi with a Procession (1673).
This selection covers his two main types of picture: seaports with classical buildings and ships at sunrise or sunset, and wide pastoral landscapes with trees, rivers and distant hills. Small figures from myth and the Bible, such as Europa, Paris, and Apollo and Mercury, appear in the foreground. It also includes two views of the ruins of the Roman Forum. Golden, hazy light runs through almost every picture.
The wide, calm landscapes suit living rooms, bedrooms and studies, and they work especially well above a sofa, bed or fireplace. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
