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Sit with the shepherd on the rock at right and look out across the dark slopes and rounded trees to the pale line of the sea.
The Sasso is a large rock about ten miles south of Civitavecchia, the seaport of Rome, and Claude seems to have made this drawing at the rock itself. Thin washes of ink suggest the rolling land and the sea rather than describe them, and single trees stand out as simple, almost geometric shapes. For nearly a hundred years after Claude died, Grand Tour travelers measured the real landscapes they saw against his.
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache and traces of white chalk, over black chalk and graphite, on cream laid paper · 16.2 × 40.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Baroque
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- Museum title
- Panorama from the Sasso
- Artist
- Claude Lorrain French, 1600-1682
- Date
- 1649/1655
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache and traces of white chalk, over black chalk and graphite, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 16.2 × 40.2 cm (6 7/16 × 15 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.