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Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) Artworks collected in Metmuseum

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Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Claude Lorrain (French: [klod lɔ.ʁɛ̃]; born Claude Gellée [ʒəle], called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is one of the earliest important artists, apart from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, to concentrate on landscape painting.  His landscapes are usually turned into the more prestigious genre of history paintings by the addition of a few small figures, typically representing a scene from the Bible or classical mythology. By the end of the 1630s he was established as the leading landscapist in Italy, and enjoyed large fees for his work. His landscapes gradually became larger, but with fewer figures, more carefully painted, and produced at a lower rate. He was not generally an innovator in landscape painting, except in introducing the sun and streaming sunlight into many paintings, which had been rare before.  He is now thought of as a French painter, but was born in the independent Duchy of Lorraine, and almost all his painting was done in Italy; before the late 19th century he was regarded as a painter of the "Roman School". His patrons were also mostly Italian, but after his death he became very popular with English collectors, and the UK retains a high proportion of his works. He was a prolific creator of drawings in pen and very often monochrome watercolour "wash", usually brown but sometimes grey. Chalk is sometimes used for under-drawing, and white highlighting in various media may be employed, much less often other colours such as pink.  These fall into three fairly distinct groups. Firstly there are large numbers of sketches, mostly of landscapes, and apparently very often done at the scene; these have been greatly admired, and influenced other artists. Then there are studies for paintings, of various degrees of finish, many clearly done before or during the process of painting, but others perhaps after that was complete. This was certainly the case for the last group, the 195 drawings recording finished paintings collected in his Liber Veritatis (now in the British Museum). He produced over 40 etchings, often simplified versions of paintings, mainly before 1642.  These served various purposes for him, but are now regarded as much less important than his drawings. He painted frescoes in his early career, which played an important part in making his reputation, but are now nearly all lost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Lorrain

View of Civitavecchia

French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome / The Met

   title: View of Civitavecchia
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1975

Harbor Scene with Rising Sun

French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome / The Met

   title: Harbor Scene with Rising Sun
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1926

A Port Scene

French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome / The Met

   title: A Port Scene
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1975

The Rape of Europa

French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome / The Met

   title: The Rape of Europa
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1926

Sunrise (recto); Landscape with Figures (verso)

French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome / The Met

   title: Sunrise (recto); Landscape with Figures (verso)
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1951

Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus

French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome / The Met

   title: Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1997

Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt

French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome / The Met

   title: Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1907

Three Archers and a Figure with a Spear

Jost Amman Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Jost Amman Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Jost Amman (June 13, 1539 – March 17, 1591) was a Swiss-German artist, celebrated chiefly for his woodcuts, done mainly for book illustrations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jost_Amman Marcus Curtius    title: Marcus Curtius    department: Drawings and Prints    accessionYear: 2002 Entry of Maximilian II into Nuremberg, June 7, 1570    title: Entry of Maximilian II into Nuremberg, June 7, 1570    department: Drawings and Prints    accessionYear: 1953 Triumph of Christian Faith    ti
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Winslow Homer Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Winslow Homer Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium. He also worked extensively
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Okumura Masanobu Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Okumura Masanobu Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Okumura Masanobu (Japanese: 奥村 政信; 1686 – 13 March 1764) was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter. He also illustrated novelettes and in his early years wrote some fiction. At first his work adhered to the Torii school, but later drifted beyond that. He is a figure in the formative era of ukiyo-e doing early works on actors and bijin-ga ("pictures of beautiful women"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okumura_Masanobu Yaoya O Shichi Standing, Holding a Love Letter and a Battledo
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