Time, Apollo, and the Seasons (Le Temps, Apollon et les Saisons)
Claude Lorrain · 1662 · etching
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About this picture
Time, Apollo, and the Seasons (Le Temps, Apollon et les Saisons) is a public-domain illustration by Claude Lorrain, dated 1662. Etching. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Time, Apollo, and the Seasons (Le Temps, Apollon et les Saisons)” (1662) 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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