The Ford (Le passage du gué)

1634

Claude Lorrain

Associated Names
Claude Lorrain

Artist, French, 1604/1605 - 1682

The image is an etching featuring a scene with fine lines. The horizon is high, with trees dominating the center. The linework provides texture to the trees, foliage, and figures. The color palette is monochrome, with varying line density creating contrast and shading. In the foreground, goats are near water, and two figures stand in conversation. Another figure is seated. Trees frame the middle distance, with birds in the sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Accession Number

    1973.54.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mannocci 1988, no. 12, State ii/v (B)

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 54.

Bibliography

1923

  • Blum, Andre. Les eaux-fortes de Claude Gellee dit le Lorrain. Paris: Editions Albert Morance, 1923.

1988

  • Mannocci, Lino. The Etchings of Claude Lorrain (catalogue raisonné). New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988.

Wikidata ID

Q65566986

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