Pastoral Landscape
Claude Gellée (called Le Lorrain) · 1638 · Oil on canvas
Public domain
Marked Public Domain by the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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About this picture
Pastoral Landscape is a public-domain painting by Claude Gellée (called Le Lorrain), dated 1638. Oil on canvas. The file comes from Minneapolis Institute of Art.
“Pastoral Landscape” (1638) 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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