Harbor Scene with Rising Sun (Le soleil levant)
Claude Lorrain · 1634 · etching
Public domain
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About this picture
Harbor Scene with Rising Sun (Le soleil levant) is a public-domain illustration by Claude Lorrain, dated 1634. Etching. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Harbor Scene with Rising Sun (Le soleil levant)” (1634) 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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