Perseus and the Origin of Coral

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome)
Date: ca. 1671
Medium: Black chalk, sepia and black ink, sepia and gray wash heightened with white
Dimensions: 10 x 12 13/16 in. (25.4 x 32.5 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession no.: 1975.1.661

The Ford
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
possibly 1636 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00014715
Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
ca. 1639 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00014716
Sunrise
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
possibly 1646–47 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00014717
The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
ca. 1643 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00014718