Claude Lorrain was French, but came to Italy at an early age and lived in Rome from the age of 13. There he began an apprenticeship with Agostino Tassi, who designed illusionistic ceiling paintings. In 1625 he returned only briefly to France to work as an assistant to the artist Claude Deruet . But he did not stay long and soon went back to Rome, where he remained until the end of his life.
Lorrain was a very thoughtful and sensitive person, for example he translated biblical or mythological subjects into sensitive, pictorial scenes. In his early thirties he had established himself as a leading landscape painter.
He received commissions from Philip IV of Spain. Lorrain contributed at least seven large landscape paintings to the decoration of his palace. He also painted ten large pictures for the Duke of Paliano, Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna.
In contrast to the earlier, in northern tradition rather small, detailed works, Lorrain had a lively, bold and monumental style, which became even more epic and heroic with increasing age.
Lorrain had a daughter named Agnese who was born in 1653. Two of his nephews also lived with him. With increasing age, however, he created fewer and fewer pictures. He died at the age of 82 years.
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.jpg "Cleopatra Disembarking at Tarsus by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "A Sunset or Landscape with Argus Guarding Io by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Aeneas and Dido in Carthage by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Arrival of Aeneas in Italy, the Dawn of the Roman Empire by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Port of Genoa, Sea View by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Embarkation of St. Paula Romana at Ostia by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Narcissus and Echo, 1644 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Rest on the Flight into Egypt, early 1640s by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Le Passage du Gué by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Two Trees, c. 1638 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "A Seaport at Sunrise by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Embarkation of St Paula by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "View of Seaport, 1633-34 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Psyche Outside the Palace of Cupid The Enchanted Castle by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with the Father of Psyche Sacrificing at the Milesian Temple of Apollo by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Ford by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Embarkation of Ulysses by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Ideal View of Tivoli by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Coastal Scene with the Embarkation of Saint Paul by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Claude Lorrain, French Painter of the Baroque Era. Engraved by William Holl by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Coast Scene with an Artist by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, c1646 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Judgement of Paris by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Embarkation of St Paula by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Harbour Scene, (detail) by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape, the Archangel Raphael and Tobias by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Coastal Landscape at Sunset by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with David at the Cave of Abdullam by Claude Lorrain")
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_(La_danse_sous_les_arbres)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1255998).jpg "The Country Dance (Small Plate) by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with a Goatherd and Goats by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Tiber Landscape North of Rome with Dark Cloudy Sky, Between 1630 and 1640 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Apollo guarding the Cattle of Admetus and Mercury stealing them by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with a Rock Arch and River by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Noon or Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1661 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Herd Returning in Stormy Weather, ca. 1650-51 by Claude Lorrain")
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 1 - (MeisterDrucke-225890).jpg "Morning (Landscape with Jacob, Rachel and Leah by the Well) by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Origin of Coral or Perseus with Head of the Medusa by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Brigands by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Abraham Expelling Hagar and Ishmael by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "River Landscape with Goatherd Piping, 17th century by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Perseus and the Origin of Coral, c.1671 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, or Night by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Ulysses Returning Chryseis to Her Father by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Four Goats (Left Section of The Goats) by Claude Lorrain")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1296543).jpg "The Wooden Bridge (Rebecca and Eliezer) by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Villa in the Roman Campagna by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "View of Delphi with a Procession by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Boarding of the Holy Roman Saint Paul at Ostia (detail) by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with View through Trees by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Peasants Returning with Their Herds by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with a Herd of Deer by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Idyllic Landscape with the Flight into Egypt by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with the Rest on the Flight to Egypt, 1660 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Shipwreck by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Battle on the Bridge, Battle between Emperors Maxentius and Constantine by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Sketch of Foliage and Branches by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "View of Shrubbery with a Wall on the right, c1640 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Dancing Figures by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Jupiter and Europa by Francois Vivares")
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.jpg "Landscape with Merchants by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Coast Scene with an Artist Drawing by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Draughtsman by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Italianate River Landscape with Bridge with Tower by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Disembarkation of Cleopatra at Tarsus by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Cowherd by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The River Tiber, Rome, Italy, c. 1640 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Coast Scene with Europa and the Bull by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Round Tower Ruptured to Reveal the Statue of the King of the Romans, 1637 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Dancing Satyrs and Nymphs, 1646 by Claude Lorrain")
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