The Herd Returning in Stormy Weather
Claude Lorrain · 1651 · Etching on ivory laid paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
The Herd Returning in Stormy Weather is a public-domain illustration by Claude Lorrain, dated 1651. Etching on ivory laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“The Herd Returning in Stormy Weather” (1651) 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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