Museum Object Number1980.0082 |
Print (Etching)
Nach dem Original -- Gemälde, genannt IL MOLINO DI CLAUDIO, im Pallast Doria zu Rome. Länge 9 palm, Höhe 6 p: 9 z:
Prints and Maps
Museum purchase
Wilhelm Friedrich Gmelin (Draftsman and etcher)
Claude Lorrain (Painter)
Calcografia Camerale (Publisher)
Claude was a very prolific painter, and is often considered the greatest of ideal landscape painters. He was born of peasants Jean and Anne (or Idatte) Gellée in the village of Champagne, then in the independent duchy of Lorraine. Due to an inaccurate inscription, his birth date was long believed to be 1600, but it is now believed to be 1604. His early training is uncertain, but it seems as if he went to Rome at age 13 or so, perhaps as a pastry cook, and then probably went to Naples, where he studied painting. He was highly regarded as an artist. His landscapes depict an image of nature more beautiful and better ordered than nature itself, often including pastoral scenes with shepherds guarding their flocks. He refined the theme, first seen in Venetian painting around 1510, by using light as the principal means both of unifying the composition and of lending beauty to the landscape. His popular works embodied the courtly values of 'high finish' and decorum; among his most important patrons were members of the European nobility and higher clergy. (Source: ULAN).Giovanni Giacomo De' Rossi was the son of the founder of the most important and active printing press of the 17th century in Rome. Begun in 1633 by his father Giuseppe (1570-1639), the press passed first to Giacomo and to his brother Giandomenico (1619-1653), and then later to Lorenzo Filippo (1682-?); in 1738 it became the Calcografia Camerale, from 1870 until 1945 the Regia Calcografica, and today it is known as the Calcografia Nazionale.
176016041738
182016821870
Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy, Europe
1804
1. Inscription ; Lower right; Gezeichnet und gestocken in Rom von W.F. Gmelin 1804.
2. Inscription; Lower left; Gemalt von Claude Lorrain.
3. Inscription; Lower right; Roma, presso la Calcografia Camerale.
Landscape
Ink; Paper (wove)
Etched
24.1 (H) , 29.8 (W) , 20.8 (Image H) , 25.8 (Image W)
61.3 (H) , 75.6 (W) , 20.8 (Image H) , 25.8 (Image W)
Calcografia Camerale
1804
Rome, Italy, Europe
Unknown
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