Claude Lorrain. Harbour with the embarkation of the Queen of Sheba
Claude Lorrain · 1648
Public domain
Public domain via Catholic University of Leuven.
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About this picture
Claude Lorrain. Harbour with the embarkation of the Queen of Sheba is a public-domain painting by Claude Lorrain, dated 1648. The file comes from Catholic University of Leuven.
“Claude Lorrain. Harbour with the embarkation of the Queen of Sheba” (1648) 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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