Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009832Italian Landscape
About the Artwork
Although French by birth, Claude Lorrain spent his entire working career in Rome. He revolutionized the art of landscape painting by filling his harmoniously ordered scenes (inspired by the campagna, the countryside around Rome) with a golden, hazy light. Painted early in Lorrain's career, Italian Landscape shows a wide, sweeping vista with a wooded hill topped by a structure resembling an ancient Roman temple. The left side of the picture is dark, but the foreground sweeps away in a curve to the right that leads off into an increasingly luminous distance.
Inscriptions
signed lower right: CLAUDIO I.V. 163...
Provenance
Earls of Effingham, England (last owner, H.A. Gordon, fourth Earl of Effingham); private collection, England; [Thomas Agnew, London]; [Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1946.
Exhibition history
Claude Lorrain and the Ideal Landscape. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (organizer) (September 15-December 6, 1998).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Claude Lorrain (French, 1604–1682)
- Date
- c. 1630
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 126.5 x 162.5 x 5 cm (49 13/16 x 64 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 97.5 x 134.2 cm (38 3/8 x 52 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Accession no.
- 1946.73
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