Claude Lorrain was French, but came to Italy at an early age and lived in Rome from the age of 13. There he began an apprenticeship with Agostino Tassi, who designed illusionistic ceiling paintings. In 1625 he returned only briefly to France to work as an assistant to the artist Claude Deruet . But he did not stay long and soon went back to Rome, where he remained until the end of his life.
Lorrain was a very thoughtful and sensitive person, for example he translated biblical or mythological subjects into sensitive, pictorial scenes. In his early thirties he had established himself as a leading landscape painter.
He received commissions from Philip IV of Spain. Lorrain contributed at least seven large landscape paintings to the decoration of his palace. He also painted ten large pictures for the Duke of Paliano, Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna.
In contrast to the earlier, in northern tradition rather small, detailed works, Lorrain had a lively, bold and monumental style, which became even more epic and heroic with increasing age.
Lorrain had a daughter named Agnese who was born in 1653. Two of his nephews also lived with him. With increasing age, however, he created fewer and fewer pictures. He died at the age of 82 years.
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.jpg "Cleopatra Disembarking at Tarsus, 1642 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Tobias and the Archangel Raphael by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "View of La Crescenza, 1648-50 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "A Sunset or Landscape with Argus Guarding Io by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Port of Genoa, Sea View by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Arrival of Aeneas in Italy, the Dawn of the Roman Empire by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Aeneas and Dido in Carthage, 1675 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "A Seaport at Sunrise by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Embarkation of Saint Paula by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Ideal View of Tivoli by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Pastoral Landscape, 1638 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Embarkation of Ulysses by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "An Artist Studying from Nature by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "A Pastoral Landscape with Ruined Temple by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Le Passage du Gué by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Two Trees, c. 1638 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Rest on the Flight into Egypt, early 1640s by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Ford by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "View of Seaport, 1633-34 by Claude Lorrain")
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_-_Seaport_with_Villa_Medici_-_(MeisterDrucke-1088583).jpg "Seaport with Villa Medici by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Embarkation of St. Paula Romana at Ostia, 1637-39 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Italian Landscape, 1648 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Narcissus and Echo, 1644 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Pastoral Landscape, 1646-47 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia, 17th century by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Psyche outside the Palace of Cupid - The Enchanted Castle, 1664 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with the Father of Psyche Sacrificing at the Milesian Temple of Apollo by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Jacob and Laban and Laban")
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.jpg "Ulysses Returning Chryseis to her Father by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Coast View with the Abduction of Europa by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba, 1648 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Capriccio with ruins of the Roman Forum by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Coast with Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Port Scene with the Departure of Ulysses from the Land of the Phaeacians by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Seaport with the Embarkation of St. Ursula by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with the Burial of Saint Serapia by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "View of the Campo Vaccino, Rome, 1636 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Campo Vaccino, Rome by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Aeneas at Delos, 1672 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Apollo and Marsyas, 1639-1640 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "River Landscape with Goatherd Piping, 17th century by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Psyche")
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.jpg "The Roman Countryside by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Morning at the Port by Claude Lorrain")
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_-_Paysage_avec_chevrier_et_chevres_(Landscape_with_a_Goatherd_and_Goats)_Peinture_-_(MeisterDrucke-939185).jpg "Landscape with a Goatherd and Goats by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Jacob with Laban and His Daughters by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Dancer with Tambourine and Bag-Piper by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "View of Campo Vaccino in Rome by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Shepherds by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "View of Delphi with a Sacrificial Procession by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Port at Sunset by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "View of Carthage with Dido and Aeneas by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with the Adoration of the Golden Calf by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Boarding of the Holy Roman Saint Paul at Ostia (detail) by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Shepherd by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with a Rock Arch and River by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Apollo and Mercury by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "A View of the Roman Campagna from Tivoli by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with two Trees by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "View of Tivoli by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Apollo Guarding the Herds of Admetus by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "David is Consecrated King by Samuel by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with a Goatherd by Claude Lorrain")
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_-_Landscape_with_Castle_-_(MeisterDrucke-959416).jpg "Landscape with Castle by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Cattle and Goats Crossing a Bridge by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Country Dance, ca. 1637 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Acis and Galatea by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "The Two Landscapes by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Pastoral Landscape with the Ponte Molle, Rome by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with Ruins, Pastoral Figures, and Trees by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with the Voyage of Jacob by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "A View in Rome by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Noon or Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1661 by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Landscape with the Nymph Egeria by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Mercury and Argus by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Pastoral Landscape with a Mill by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Classical river scene with a view of a town by Claude Lorrain")
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.jpg "Study of a Seated Woman and Other Sketches by Claude Lorrain")
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