Claude Lorrain was one of the great masters of the ideal landscape. He developed a style that was not as heroic or classical as Poussin's, but capable of expressing both a more poetic mood and a livelier sense of the variety and beauty of nature. In his drawings as well as his paintings, Claude achieved unparalleled subtlety in his treatment of atmosphere and light. The light 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 Claude's landscapes.
Details
- Artist Name: Claude (Claude Gellée) Lorrain (French, 1600-1682)
- Title: Esther on Her Way to Ahasuerus
- Date: 1657-59
- Medium: Black chalk, pen, brown wash and white heightening on paper
- Dimensions: 7-1/2 x 10-3/16 in. (19.1 x 25.9 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
- Accession Number: M.1970.7.41.D
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation
Object Information
Claude Lorrain 60 Zeichnungen
- Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1971-10-30 to 1971-11-28
- Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, 1972-05 to 1972-10
Claude Lorrain Drawings
[on loan]
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1970-05 to 1970-11
The Claude Lorrain Album in the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art
- Princeton University Art Museum, 1973-04-27 to 1973-07-03
- Fogg Art Museum, 1973-09-21 to 1973-10-21
- Smith College Museum of Art, 1973-11-01 to 1973-12-20
- William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, 1974-01-06 to 1974-01-27
- Oberlin, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, 1974-02-16 to 1974-03
- Wellesley, Wellesley College Museum, 1974-04-08 to 1974-06-08
- Fried, Alexander, San Francisco Examiner, p. 31
- Roethlisberger, Marcel, Claude Lorrain, The Wildenstein Albums, 1962,
- Roethlisberger, Marcel, The Claude Lorrain Album in the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art, 1971, no. 41 p. 27
- Masterpieces from the Norton Simon Museum, 1989, p. 63
- Roethlisberger, M., Drawing, 1993, pp. 7-10
- Dye, Sean, The Mixed-Media Sourcebook, 2004, p. 7
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 740 p. 333
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