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The Dance by the River, Claude Lorrain (French, 1604–1682), Public domain

The Dance by the River

Claude Lorrain (French, 1604–1682) · c. 1634–36 · etching

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CC0 1.0 public-domain dedication by the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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About this picture

The Dance by the River is a CC0 illustration by Claude Lorrain (French, 1604–1682), dated c. 1634–36. Etching. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.

“The Dance by the River” (c. 1634–36) 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.

Public domain pictures of landscapes

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