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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.
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Table of contents
1Introduction
63Landscape with Apollo Guarding the Herds of Admetus
2Herd at a Watering-Place
64Landscape near Rome with the Ponte Molle
3BIOGRAPHY
65Landscape outside the Walls of Rome
4Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome
66A Bank of Trees
5Landscape with Groves and Seated Figure
67Group of Trees in a Dale
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6Embarkation of a Queen
68The Judgment of Paris
7Landscape with an Artist Drawing
69Landscape with Rocks
8The Siege of La Rochelle by Louis XIII (October 1628)
70Shepherd and his Herd
9Mill on a River
71David Sacred King by Samuel
10Morning in Seaport
72Arrival of Ulysses to the Court of Lycomedes
11Trees and Rocks by a Waterfall
73Landscape with the Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca
12Rocky Stream with an Artist Seated on the Left
74River Landscape with Herdsmen and Herds
13Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt
75Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba
14Tree Study
76View of the Sasso
15The Colosseum
77Coastal Landscape with Classical Architecture
16View of the Campo Vaccino
78Landscape with a Procession to Delphi
17Trees and Rocks by a Stream
79St Jerome in front of the Crucifix Washing his Body
18Landscape with a Goatherd and Goats
80Landscape with Draughtsman by the Ruins of a Temple
19The Cowherd
81Landscape with Apollo and the Muses
20Seaport with the Setting Sun
82Landscape with the Adoration of the Golden Calf
21The Dance
83Landscape with Jacob and Laban’s Daughters
22Seaport with the Rising Sun
84The Rape of Europa
23Oak Tree in the Campagna
85Landscape with the Sermon on the Mount
24Pastoral Lanscape
86Fighting on a Bridge
25Pastoral Caprice with the Arch of Constantine
87Landscape During a Storm
26Landscape with Lowland Plain in the Vicinity of Rome
88A Herd of Sheep in the Campagna
27Stone Pines with Two Figures
89Group of Trees
28An Artist Studying Nature
90Landscape with David at the Cave of Adullam
29Two Ships in a Storm
91Trees on the Edge of a Forest
30The Draughtsman
92Landscape with Christ on the Road to Emmaus
31Pastoral Landscape with Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo
93Panoramic Landscape
32Moses Saved from the Waters of the Nile
94Pastoral Landscape with Tall Trees
33Landscape
95Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Noon)
34A Fortress or Monastery near the Porta Pinciana
96Pastoral Landscape with the Arch of Titus
35The Burial of Saint Seraphia
97Landscape with the Father of Psyche Sacrificing to Apollo
36Draughtsman in front of the Grotto of Neptune in Tivoli
98View of the Acqua Acetosa
37Landscape with the Embarkment of Saint Paula Romana in Ostia
99Time, Apollo and the Seasons
38The Archangel Raphael and Tobias
100Landscape with Mercury and Battus
39Coastal Landscape with the Castello Orsini-Odescalchi near Palo
101The Goatherd
40Landscape with the Port of Santa Marinella
102Landscape with Tobias and the Angel (Evening)
41Goatherd by a Tree
103The Enchanted Castle
42The Village Fête
104Landscape with Jacob, Rachel and Leah at the Well (Morning)
43Trees
105Landscape with Erminia and the Shepherds
44Group of Trees on a Riverbank
106Landscape with Tobias and the Angel
45Landscape with a Rustic Dance
107The Expulsion of Hagar
46View of Tivoli
108Hagar and Ishmael in the Desert
47Tall Ships Ride at Anchor
109Two Palaces with Saint Alexis
48Seaport with the Embarkation of St Ursula
110Landscape with Dancing Figures
49Sunny Spot at the Edge of a Forest
111Landscape with Mary Magdalene at Prayer
50Cabins on Lake Nemi
112Landscape with Two Men on a Riverbank
51Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing
113Landscape with Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (Night)
52Waterfall
114Christ before Pontius Pilate
53Landscape with an Imaginary View of Tivoli
115Landscape with Aeneas at Delos
54View of the Tiber near the Torre di Quinto
116Coast Scene with Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl
55View from within a Grotto
117Coast Scene with Perseus and the Origin of Coral
56The Disembarkation of Cleopatra at Tarsus
118Coast View with Perseus and the Origin of Coral
57Rocky Landscape with Seated Figure
119The Landing of Aeneas in Latium
58Forest View
120Apollo and the Muses on Mount Helion (Parnassus)
59Tiber Valley
121Coast Scene with Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl
60Ulysses Returning Chryseis to her Father
122Rocks by a Torrent
61The Shepherd and the Shepherdess Talking
123View of the Temple of Delphi
62Pastoral Landscape
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