A Wooded River Landscape with Jacob, Laban, and His Daughters
Claude Lorrain · 1661 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and black, brown and gray wash, and black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
A Wooded River Landscape with Jacob, Laban, and His Daughters is a public-domain drawing by Claude Lorrain, dated 1661. Pen and brown ink, with brush and black, brown and gray wash, and black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“A Wooded River Landscape with Jacob, Laban, and His Daughters” (1661) 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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