Room 95

Claude Lorrain

1604–1682, Lorraine, Italy (Rome), Baroque (ideal landscape)

Claude Gellée, known as Lorrain, came to Rome from Lorraine as a young man and stayed for the rest of his life. He invented the “ideal landscape”: harbours against the light, shepherds beneath tall trees, ancient ruins in golden evening light. His etchings and paintings were collected throughout Europe and influenced generations of landscape painters down to Turner.

All works

• The Judgment of Paris
• Landscape with Merchants
• Landscape with a Bridge
• Torione Anticho Fori di Roma
• Harbor with a Large Tower (Le Port de mer à la grosse tour)
• The Tempest (La Tempête)
• The Cowherd (Le bouvier)
• Landscape with Brigands (Scène de brigands)
• Harbor Scene with Rising Sun (Le soleil levant)
• The Goatherd (Le chevrier)
• The Roman Forum (Le Campo Vaccino)
• The Herd Returning in Stormy Weather (Le troupeau en marche par un temps orageux)
• Mercury and Argus (Mercure et Argus)
• Coast Scene with an Artist (Le dessinateur)
• The Herd Returning in Stormy Weather (Le troupeau en marche par un temps orageux)
• The Shipwreck (Le naufrage)
• The Country Dance (Small Plate) (La danse sous les arbres)
• Shepherd and Shepherdess Conversing in a Landscape (Berger et bergère conversant)
• Shepherd with Four Goats (Les quatre chèvres)
• Europa and the Bull (L'enlèvement d'Europe)
• Time, Apollo, and the Seasons (Le Temps, Apollon et les Saisons)
• Harbor with a Large Tower (Le Port de mer à la grosse tour)
• Departure for the Fields (Le départ pour les champs)
• Dance Under the Trees
• The Dance on the River Bank (La danse au bord de l'eau)
• The Herd at the Watering Place (Le troupeau à l'abreuvoir)
• Departure for the Fields
• The Flight into Egypt (La fuite en Egypte)
• The Ford (Le passage du gué)
• The Ford (Le passage du gué)
• The Rest on the Flight into Egypt