Claude Lorrain. Harbour at sunset
Claude Lorrain · 1643
Public domain
Public domain via Catholic University of Leuven.
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About this picture
Claude Lorrain. Harbour at sunset is a public-domain painting by Claude Lorrain, dated 1643. The file comes from Catholic University of Leuven.
“Claude Lorrain. Harbour at sunset” (1643) 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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