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See how the brown wash deepens in the shade of the tree and thins to bare paper in the sky and the distant hills.
Claude was a prolific draftsman whose drawings dwell on the peace of the Roman countryside. By tradition this sheet passed from his estate to Queen Christina of Sweden in Rome and then to the Odescalchi family, and it reached the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1982. Under a spreading tree, a seated shepherd, a standing youth and a dog meet two women in classical dress.
pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash over graphite · Sheet: 19.2 x 25.8 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Baroque
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- Museum title
- Pastoral Scene with Classical Figures
- Artist
- Claude Lorrain (French, 1604–1682)
- Date
- c. 1640–45
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash over graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 19.2 x 25.8 cm (7 9/16 x 10 3/16 in.); Image: 19 x 25.4 cm (7 1/2 x 10 in.)
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. 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.