Italian Landscape (c. 1630): Art, History and Details

Italian Landscape (c. 1630) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Claude Lorrain (French, 1604–1682).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Italian Landscape
• Date: c. 1630
• Creator attribution: Claude Lorrain (French, 1604–1682)
• Culture: France
• Type: Painting
• Technique: 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.)
• Collection: P - French 17th Century
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1946.73

Collection credit

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Francis, Henry S. “‘Roman Campagna near Tivoli’ by Claude Gellée de Lorrain.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 33, no. 10 (December 1946): 178–180.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.

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