Claude Lorrain
Britishnoun
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It’s a mythological painting inspired by Ovid and based on a composition by the 17th-century painter Claude Lorrain.
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023
The Jewish Museum has borrowed from Richmond a pastoral scene by Claude Lorrain, “Battle on a Bridge,” confiscated by the Nazis from the Paris art dealer Georges Wildenstein.
From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2021
Hills, trees and a shimmering lake are laid out in a subtly dynamic diagonal grid, which reflects the painter’s admiration for the popular French landscape artist Claude Lorrain.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2021
Grand Tourists had brought home numerous works by the great practitioners of continental Europe Nicolas Poussin, his brother-in-law Gaspard Dughet, Salvator Rosa and Claude Lorrain.
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2012
It is inconceivable to us, who graduate men by a high-school standard, that these refined and most elegant works could have been produced by a man so imperfectly educated as Claude Lorrain.
From Castilian Days by Hay, John
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