Sunrise
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · possibly 1646–47 · Oil on canvas
Public domain
Marked public domain in The Met Collection API (isPublicDomain).
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About this picture
Sunrise is a public-domain painting by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée), dated possibly 1646–47. Oil on canvas. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Sunrise” (possibly 1646–47) 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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