Grove of Trees
Claude Lorrain · c. 1640 · pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper
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About this picture
Grove of Trees is a public-domain drawing by Claude Lorrain, dated c. 1640. Pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Grove of Trees” (c. 1640) 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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