biography
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Claude Lorrain
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originally Claude Gellée
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pronunciation:
[klohd]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1600–82)
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| biography:
| Landscape painter, born in Chamagne, Lorraine region, NE France. He studied with various Italian painters, then settled in Rome (1627). He painted about 400 landscapes, including several with biblical or Classical themes, such as ‘The Sermon on the Mount’ (1656, Frick Collection, New York City). His compositions, if rather formal, are always graceful and well considered, and his colour is singularly mellow and harmonious. He also produced many drawings and etchings. |
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