Harbor with a Large Tower (Le Port de mer à la grosse tour)
Claude Lorrain · c. 1641 · etching on laid paper
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About this picture
Harbor with a Large Tower (Le Port de mer à la grosse tour) is a public-domain illustration by Claude Lorrain, dated c. 1641. Etching on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Harbor with a Large Tower (Le Port de mer à la grosse tour)” (c. 1641) 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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