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Claude Lorrain (1600 - 1682)
French landscape painter and engraver, born in 1600 in Chamagne near Mirecourt in Lorraine. According to Sandrart, Claude travelled to Rome as early as 1612/13, where he remained, apart from a number of short journeys, until his death. From 1618 he was a pupil and assistant of the painter Agostino Tassi. He came under the influence of the classical landscape painting style that developed in the circle of Bril and Elsheimer in the first decade of the 17th century. In 1625 he travelled via Venice and Bavaria to Lorraine, where he became an assistant to Claude Deruet. Two years later he was again in Rome. There he made friends with Joachim von Sandrart. As a landscape painter he was again in Rome. As a landscape painter he was one of the most internationally acclaimed of all artists, and received commissions from the popes and the kings of Spain and France. In order to protect himself from the many imitations of his workshop, from 1635 onward he made drawings of his completed compositions in a "Liber Veritatis", (British Museum, London). He died in Rome in 1682. |
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