Buildings Beside Lagoon
Claude Lorrain · n.d. · Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, on ivory laid paper, perimter mounted on cream wove card
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Buildings Beside Lagoon is a public-domain drawing by Claude Lorrain, dated n.d.. Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, on ivory laid paper, perimter mounted on cream wove card. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Buildings Beside Lagoon” (n.d.) is built as Claude built a landscape: a dark foreground, a bright distance, and small figures that set the scale.
About the artist
Claude Lorrain (1600–1682) was a French painter working in Rome. His landscapes open toward a low sun, with a few figures and a distance of sea or countryside.
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