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Let your eye travel from the dark hill and its temple at left along the curving foreground to the bright plain and blue mountains, then find the small figures crossing a fallen tree.
Claude painted this early landscape around 1630, soon after he settled for good in Rome, and signed it CLAUDIO with a date in the 1630s that is now only partly legible. A wooded hill crowned by a building like a Roman temple darkens the left side, while the ground curves away to a bright, open distance at right. The Cleveland Museum of Art credits Claude with transforming landscape painting through such ordered views of the Roman countryside, filled with golden, hazy light.
oil on canvas · Framed: 126.5 x 162.5 x 5 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Baroque
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- Museum title
- Italian Landscape
- Artist
- Claude Lorrain (French, 1604–1682)
- Date
- c. 1630
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 126.5 x 162.5 x 5 cm (49 13/16 x 64 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 97.5 x 134.2 cm (38 3/8 x 52 13/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.