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| Landscape with a Piping Shepherd, c. 1629-32 Claude Gellée called Claude Lorrain French, 1600-1682 Oil on canvas 25-3/4 x 37-1/2 in. (65.4 x 95.3 cm) Norton Simon Art Foundation M.2007.3.P © 2012 Norton Simon Art Foundation On view Claude Lorrain was one of the great masters of the ideal landscape. He developed a style that was neither so heroic nor so classical as Poussin's, but capable of expressing both a more poetic mood and a livelier sense of the variety and beauty of nature. The keynote of this style is the treatment of atmosphere and light. Here, the cool light of early morning is represented with great subtlety. The light in Lorrain's paintings usually emanates from the area of the sky just above the horizon so that we seem to look directly into it; spreading forward and outward through the composition, it permeates the whole landscape with its radiance and links foreground and background in a continuous spatial unity. The result is the idyllic, pastoral mood that so aptly characterizes Lorrain's landscapes. View Provenance
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