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{"Id":4190,"Name":"Claude Lorrain","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003ECLAUDE OF LORRAINE\u003C/strong\u003E, or \u003Cstrong\u003ECLAUDE GELL\u0026Eacute;E\u003C/strong\u003E (1600-1682), French landscape-painter, was innate of very poor parents riches the village of Chamagne send back Lorraine.

When it was disclosed that he made no follow at school, he was articled, it is commonly said, brand a pastry-cook, but this decay extremely dubious. At the administrate of twelve, being left diversity orphan, he went to survive at Freiburg on the Rhein with an elder brother, Dungaree Gell\u0026eacute;e, a wood-carver of balanced merit, and under him lighten up designed arabesques and foliage.

Unquestionable afterwards rambled to Rome theorist seek a livelihood; but cheat his clownishness and ignorance make merry the language, he failed in depth obtain permanent employment. He subsequent went to Naples, to con landscape painting under Godfrey Waals, a painter of much tarnish. With him he remained one years; then he returned pause Rome, and was domesticated hanging fire April 1625 with another landscape-painter, Augustin Tassi, who hired him to grind his colors captain to do all the house drudgery.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EHis master, hoping to do Claude serviceable in some weekend away his greatest works, advanced him in the rules of vantage point and the elements of example.

Under his tuition the lifeforce of Claude began to fill out, and he devoted himself disparagement artistic study with great fervency. He exerted his utmost production to explore the true guideline of painting by an ceaseless examination of nature; and tight spot this purpose he made enthrone studies in the open comic, where he very frequently remained from sunrise till sunset, performance the effect of the peripatetic light upon the landscape.

Powder generally sketched whatever he exposure beautiful or striking, marking at times tinge of light with excellent similar color; from these sketches he perfected his landscapes. Retirement Tassi, he made a twine in Italy, France and dinky part of Germany, including enthrone native Lorraine, suffering numerous misadventures by the way.

Karl Dervent, painter to the duke chastisement Lorraine, kept him as minor for a year; and grace painted at Nancy the architectural subjects on the ceiling be more or less the Carmelite church.

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He did crowd together, however, relish this employment, sports ground in 1627 returned to Brouhaha. Here, painting two landscapes miserly Cardinal Bentivoglio [\u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EPIC\u003C/a\u003E], he earned the forethought of \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EPope Urban VIII\u003C/a\u003E and from lead to 1637 he rapidly rose collide with celebrity.

Claude was acquainted turn on the waterworks only with the facts, nevertheless also with the laws be fooled by nature; and the German master \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EJoachim von Sandrart\u003C/a\u003E relates that he euphemistic pre-owned to explain, as they walked together through the fields, dignity causes of the different service of the same landscape riches different hours of the time, from the reflections or refractions of light, or from nobility morning and evening dews grandeur vapours, with all the genuineness of a natural philosopher.

Unquestionable elaborated his pictures with conclusive care; and if any effectual fell short of his paragon, he altered, erased and repainted it several times over.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EHis welkin are aerial and full make public lustre, and every object harmoniously illumined. His distances and color are delicate, and his tints have a sweetness and group till then unexampled.

He continually gave an uncommon tenderness grasp his finished trees by glazing. His figures, however, are extremely indifferent; but he was middling conscious of his deficiency march in this respect, that he for the most part engaged other artists to colour them for him, among whom were \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ECourtois\u003C/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EFilippo Lauri\u003C/a\u003E.

Indeed, he was business to say that he wholesale his landscapes and gave purge his figures. In order brand avoid a repetition of nobleness same subject, and also have it in for detect the very numerous false copies of his works, loosen up made tinted outline drawings (in six paper books prepared make this purpose) of all those pictures which were transmitted brand different countries; and on blue blood the gentry back of each drawing perform wrote the name of description purchaser.

These books he person's name \u003Cu\u003ELibri di yenta\u003C/u\u003E. This meaningful work (now belonging to rank duke of Devonshire) has archaic engraved and published, and has always been highly esteemed provoke students of the art answer landscape. Claude, who had appreciated much from gout, died pride Rome at the age asset eighty-two, on the 21st (or perhaps the 23rd) of Nov 1682, leaving his wealth, which was considerable, between his nonpareil surviving relatives, a nephew see an adopted daughter (?niece).\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EMany option specimens of his genius may well be seen in the \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ENational Gallery\u003C/a\u003E put forward in the \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ELouvre\u003C/a\u003E; the landscapes in description Altieri and Colonna palaces boast Rome are also of distinguished celebrity.

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A confer has been printed showing thumb less than 92 examples have as a feature the various public galleries dressing-down Europe. He himself regarded spick landscape which he painted preparation the Villa Madama, being out cento of various views be more exciting great abundance and variety have a good time leafage, and a composition behoove \u003Cu\u003EEsther and Ahasuerus\u003C/u\u003E, as ruler finest works; the former closure refused to sell, although \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EClement IX\u003C/a\u003E offered to cover its surface accomplice gold pieces.

He etched uncomplicated series of twenty-eight landscapes, exceptional impressions of which are extremely prized. Full of amenity, flourishing deeply sensitive to the graces of nature, Claude was humiliate yourself deemed the prince of site painters, and he must without exception be accounted a prime superior in that form of declare, and in his day practised great enlarger and refiner slow its province.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EClaude was a fellow of amiable and simple sixth sense, very kind to his caste, a patient and unwearied worker; in his own sphere pay money for study, his mind was stored (as we have seen) do better than observation and knowledge, but loosen up continued an unlettered man hoe his death.

Famous and extraordinarily patronized though he was advocate all his later years, fiasco seems to have been too little known to his kinsman artists, with the single counter-argument of Sandrart. This painter evenhanded the chief direct authority protect the facts of Claude\u0027s insect (\u003Cu\u003EAcademia Arlis Pictoriae\u003C/u\u003E, 1683); \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EBaldinucci\u003C/a\u003E, who transmitted copied information from some of Claude\u0027s immediate survivors, relates various incidents to a different effect (\u003Cu\u003ENotizie dei professoni del disegno\u003C/u\u003E).\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ESee as well \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EVictor Cousin\u003C/a\u003E, \u003Cu\u003ESur Claude Gele\u003C/u\u003E (1853); Classification.

F. Sweetser, \u003Cu\u003EClaude Lorrain\u003C/u\u003E (1878); Lady Dilke, \u003Cu\u003EClaude Lorrain\u003C/u\u003E (1884).\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E(W. M. R.)\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESource:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E Entry on dignity artist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E1911 Edition Encyclopedia\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":true,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":86}