Claude Lorrain and artworks E-Book

Sergei Daniel

• Herausgeber: Parkstone International
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 73

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain was neither a great man nor a lofty spirit like Poussin. His genius cannot, however, be denied and he was, like Poussin, a profoundly original inventor within the limitations of a classical ideal. He too spent most of his life in Rome though the art he created was not specifically Italian, but French. For more than two centuries afterwards everyone in France who felt called upon to depict the beauties of nature would think of Lorrain and study his works, whether it be Joseph Vernet in the eighteenth century or Corot in the nineteenth. Outside France it was the same; Lorrain was nowhere more admired than in England. There is an element of mystery in the vocation of this humble and almost illiterate peasant whose knowledge of French and Italian was equally poor, and who used to inscribe on his drawings notes in a strange broken Franco-Italian. This mystery is in some way symbolic of that with which he imbued his pictures, le mystère dans la lumière. This admirable landscapist drew from within himself the greatest number of extraordinary pictures, in which all is beauty, poetry and truth. He sometimes made from nature drawings so beautiful that several have been attributed to Poussin, but in his paintings his imagination dominates, growing in magnitude as he realised his genius. He understood by listening to Poussin and watching him paint that a sort of intellectual background would be an invaluable addition to his own imagination, visions, dreams and reveries.

Leseprobe

Sergei Daniel

Claude Lorrain

and artworks

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ISBN: 978-1-78160-569-1

Contents

BIOGRAPHY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A

Apollo and the Muses on Mount Helion (Parnassus), 1680

The Archangel Raphael and Tobias,1639-1640

Arrival of Ulysses to the Court of Lycomedes,1648

An Artist Studying Nature,1639

B

A Bank of Trees,c. 1645

The Burial of Saint Seraphia,1639-1640

C

Cabins on Lake Nemi, c. 1640

Christ before Pontius Pilate,c. 1670-1675

Coast Scene with Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl,1673

Coast Scene with Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl

Coast Scene with Perseus and the Origin of Coral,1674

Coast View with Perseus and the Origin of Coral,1674

Coastal Landscape with Classical Architecture,1650-1655

Coastal Landscape with the Castello Orsini-Odescalchi near Palo,1639-1640

The Colosseum,c. 1635-1640

The Cowherd,1636

D

The Dance,c. 1637

David Sacred King by Samuel,1647

The Disembarkation of Cleopatra at Tarsus,1642-1643

The Draughtsman,1639

Draughtsman in front of the Grotto of Neptune in Tivoli,c. 1640

E

Embarkation of a Queen,Attributed to Agostino Tassi, c. 1628

The Enchanted Castle,1664

The Expulsion of Hagar,1668

F

Fighting on a Bridge,1655

Forest View,c. 1640-1645

A Fortress or Monastery near the Porta Pinciana,1638-1639

G

The Goatherd

Goatherd by a Tree,c. 1638

Group of Trees,c. 1655-1660

Group of Trees in a Dale,c. 1645-1650

Group of Trees on a Riverbank,c. 1640-1645

H

A Herd of Sheep in the Campagna,1656

Hagar and Ishmael in the Desert,1668

Herd at a Watering-Place

J/L

The Judgment of Paris,1645-1646

The Landing of Aeneas in Latium,1675

Landscape,c. 1638-1640

Landscape During a Storm,c. 1655-1660

Landscape near Rome with the Ponte Molle,1645

Landscape outside the Walls of Rome,c. 1645-1650

Landscape with a Goatherd and Goats,c. 1636-1637

Landscape with a Procession to Delphi,1650

Landscape with a Rustic Dance,c. 1640-1641

Landscape with Aeneas at Delos,1672

Landscape with an Artist Drawing

Landscape with an Imaginary View of Tivoli,1642

Landscape with Apollo and the Muses,1652

Landscape with Apollo Guarding the Herds of Admetus,1645

Landscape with Christ on the Road to Emmaus,1660s

Landscape with Dancing Figures,1669

Landscape with David at the Cave of Adullam,1658

Landscape with Draughtsman by the Ruins of a Temple,c. 1650-1655

Landscape with Erminia and the Shepherds,1666

Landscape with Groves and Seated Figure,c.1630-1635

Landscape with Jacob and Laban’s Daughters,1654

Landscape with Jacob, Rachel and Leah at the Well (Morning)

Landscape with Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (Night)

Landscape with Lowland Plain in the Vicinity of Rome

Landscape with Mary Magdalene at Prayer,1670

Landscape with Mercury and Battus,1663

Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing, 1641

Landscape with Rocks,1640-1645

Landscape with the Adoration of the Golden Calf,1653

Landscape with the Embarkment of Saint Paula Romana in Ostia,1639-1640

Landscape with the Father of Psyche Sacrificing to Apollo,1662

Landscape with the Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca,1648

Landscape with the Port of Santa Marinella,1639

Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt,1635-1636

Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Noon),1661

Landscape with the Sermon on the Mount,c. 1655

Landscape with Tobias and the Angel

Landscape with Tobias and the Angel (Evening),1663

Landscape with Two Men on a Riverbank,c. 1670

M

Mill on a River,c. 1631

Morning in Seaport,c.1634

Moses Saved from the Waters of the Nile,1639-1640

O/P

Oak Tree in the Campagna,1638 (?)

Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome, c. 1630-1635

Panoramic Landscape,c. 1660-1665

Pastoral Caprice with the Arch of Constantine

Pastoral Lanscape,1638

Pastoral Landscape,1644

Pastoral Landscape with Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo,1639

Pastoral Landscape with Tall Trees,c. 1660-1665

Pastoral Landscape with the Arch of Titus,1661

R

The Rape of Europa,1655

River Landscape with Herdsmen and Herds,1648

Rocks by a Torrent

Rocky Landscape with Seated Figure,c. 1640-1645

Rocky Stream with an Artist Seated on the Left,c. 1635

S

Seaport with the Embarkation of St Ursula, 1641

Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba,1648

Seaport with the Rising Sun,c. 1637-1638

Seaport with the Setting Sun,1637

Shepherd and his Herd,1647-1651

The Shepherd and the Shepherdess Talking,1644-1645

The Siege of La Rochelle by Louis XIII (October 1628),c. 1631

St Jerome in front of the Crucifix Washing his Body,c. 1650

Stone Pines with Two Figures,c. 1638-1641

Sunny Spot at the Edge of a Forest,c. 1640-1645

T

Tall Ships Ride at Anchor,c. 1640

Tiber Valley,1643

Time, Apollo and the Seasons,1662

Tree Study,c. 1635

Trees,c. 1640

Trees and Rocks by a Stream,c. 1635

Trees and Rocks by a Waterfall,c. 1635

Trees on the Edge of a Forest,1659

Two Palaces with Saint Alexis,1668

Two Ships in a Storm,1638-1640

U/V/W

Ulysses Returning Chryseis to her Father,c. 1644

View from within a Grotto,1640-1645

View of the Acqua Acetosa,1662

View of the Campo Vaccino,1636

View of the Sasso,1649

View of the Temple of Delphi

View of the Tiber near the Torre di Quinto,1640-1645

View of Tivoli,1640-1641

The Village Fête,1639

Waterfall,c. 1640-1641

“Claude Lorrain studied the real world thoroughly, and knew it down to the smallest detail; but this knowledge was, to him, no more than a means for re-creating the beautiful world of his soul.”

Herd at a Watering-Place

1635. Etching, 10.3 x 16.5 cm. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

BIOGRAPHY

1600:

Born in Chamagne in the modern-day Vosges region, in the north-east of France.

c. 1612:

Moves to Rome, where he works as a pastry chef, until he is taken on as an apprentice under the landscape painter Agostino Tassi at Bagnaia. He learns the rudiments of landscape and perspective painting.

1617-1621:

Travels to Naples for an apprenticeship with the landscapist Gottfried Wals, also known as Goffredo Tedesco.

1625-1626:

Travels to Nancy to work alongside the court painter Claude Deruet at the chapel of the Carmelite church (no longer in existence).

1633:

Admitted as a member of the Academy of Saint Luke, Rome.

1635:

Claude Lorrain publishes his own monograph, the Liber Veritatis (Book of Truth), an inventory of his works portrayed through rough sketches.

1638 onwards:

Under the patronage of King Philip IV of Spain.

1640s:

Creates a series of paintings of big ports, the most impressive of his career, including Ulysses returning Chryseis to her Father (c. 1644).

1663 onwards:

Under the patronage of Prince Colonna.

1682:

Dies in Rome and is buried there, in the church of the Santissima Trinità dei Monti.

Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome

c. 1630-1635. Brush drawing in brown wash over pen and brown ink, and graphite, 17.3 x 11.8 cm. Teylers Museum, Haarlem

If we liken history to a river, then, extending the analogy, we might say that its course is as uneven as that of any river. Some epochs create the sense of a measured, even slow passage of time, while in others the historical process moves forward by leaps and bounds, like an imperious, rushing stream. The 17th century in Europe was just such an epoch of accelerated, stormy progress.