Italianate River Landscape with Bridge with Tower
Claude Lorrain · n.d. · Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper, tipped on to cream card
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Italianate River Landscape with Bridge with Tower is a public-domain drawing by Claude Lorrain, dated n.d.. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper, tipped on to cream card. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Italianate River Landscape with Bridge with Tower” (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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