{"product_id":"masters-of-art-claude-lorrain","title":"Masters of Art - Claude Lorrain","description":"The painter, draftsman, and printmaker Claude Gellée was born in a village in the Vosges region of northeastern France in the often contested duchy of Lorraine. In Italy, where he spent the greater part of his life, he came to be known as Claude le Lorrain, and for English-language speakers as Claude Lorrain or simply Claude. His biographers, Joachim von Sandrart (1606–1688) and Filippo Baldinucci (1625–1697), knew him in Rome but give differing accounts of the beginning of his career. His date of birth may have been as early as 1600, although 1604\/5 is generally accepted. One of five sons, he lost his parents when a child and may have lived briefly with an older brother who was a printmaker in Freiburg. According to Sandrart, Claude’s first appearance in Rome was as a pastry cook. There, or in Naples, he apparently studied with the German-born artist Goffredo Wals (born ca. 1590–95, died 1638–40), by whose small-scale views (1997.157) he was influenced, and later, in Rome, he is believed to have entered the studio of the view painter and decorator Agostino Tassi (ca. 1580–1644). Baldinucci states that in 1625 Claude returned to Lorraine to work with Claude Déruet (ca. 1588–1660) (1976.100.6), but late in 1626 he was again in Rome living in via Margutta in the artists’ quarter. Said to have been disciplined, quiet, and good hearted, he never married but lived simply among relatives and friends.\n\nClaude Lorrain arrived in Italy an ill-educated foreign village boy who, with limited formal training, must have been innately gifted. His rather stilted figures show the influence of Déruet, but otherwise his style developed out of and was influenced by the work of members of the Roman community of native-born and foreign artists among whom he settled (Bartholomeus Breenbergh’s Preaching of Saint John the Baptist, although painted in 1634 in Amsterdam after his return from Italy, is a good example [1991.305])...","brand":"Delhi Open books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54561499152663,"sku":"Z3V6L9R5M1P7H2Q8","price":105.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6918\/8119\/files\/3536971_6a8dfd68-23c6-41f9-8401-f5d7f59b7e36.webp?v=1785325957","url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/products\/masters-of-art-claude-lorrain","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}