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French painter, draughtsman and etcher (d. 1682)

Claude Lorrain (French:[klodlɔ.ʁɛ̃]; born Claude Gellée[ʒəle], called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era.

He spent most of his life in Italy, and is one of the earliest significant artists, aside from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, to concentrate on landscape painting.

Claude Lorrain (c.

Claude Lorrain (c.

This account of the life and times of Claude Lorrain, a French 17th-century painter, makes accessible the range and variety of his drawings and oil paintings.

Claude Lorrain was born in in the Duchy of Lorraine to a family of peasants.

In his early career, the Lorrenese painter Claude Lorrain was immersed in the society of Northern artists in Rome.

As a teenager he joined Rome's large immigrant community of artists from northern Europe.

His landscapes often transitioned into the more prestigious genre of history paintings by addition of a few small figures, typically representing a scene from the Bible or classical mythology.

By the end of the 1630s he was established as the leading landscapist in Italy, and enjoyed large fees for his work.

His landscapes gradually became larger, but with fewer figures, more carefully painted, and produced at a lower rate.^[1] He was not generally an innovator in landscap