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
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
Several presented themselves in the form of a gallery with more than a dozen paintings by the French painters Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain that I never knew existed here.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2019
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
In fact, Wilson was nurtured on Claude Lorrain and Joseph Vernet and instead of painting the realistic English landscape he painted the pseudo-Italian landscape.
From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke
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