Landscape with Ruins, Pastoral Figures, and Trees
Claude Lorrain · c. 1650 · pen and brown ink with graphite and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on apricot-prepared paper
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About this picture
Landscape with Ruins, Pastoral Figures, and Trees is a public-domain drawing by Claude Lorrain, dated c. 1650. Pen and brown ink with graphite and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on apricot-prepared paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Landscape with Ruins, Pastoral Figures, and Trees” (c. 1650) 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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