View of La Crescenza
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · 1648–50 · Oil on canvas
Public domain
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About this picture
View of La Crescenza is a public-domain painting by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée), dated 1648–50. Oil on canvas. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“View of La Crescenza” (1648–50) 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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