Shepherd and Shepherdess Conversing in a Landscape (Berger et bergère conversant)
Claude Lorrain · c. 1651 · etching
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About this picture
Shepherd and Shepherdess Conversing in a Landscape (Berger et bergère conversant) is a public-domain illustration by Claude Lorrain, dated c. 1651. Etching. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Shepherd and Shepherdess Conversing in a Landscape (Berger et bergère conversant)” (c. 1651) 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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