The Vision (L'apparition)

c. 1630

Claude Lorrain

Associated Names
Claude Lorrain

Artist, French, 1604/1605 - 1682

The image shows a natural landscape with dense vegetation viewed from a slightly elevated perspective. A distant building, possibly a castle or manor, is faintly visible on the horizon. The brushstrokes or etching technique is intricate with fine lines and detailed cross-hatching creating texture in the foliage and ground. The color palette is monochromatic in tones of brown or sepia, giving an antique feel. Trees and shrubs dominate the foreground with intertwining branches, leading the eye towards the distant building on the horizon.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 10.7 × 17.4 cm (4 3/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 20.9 × 27.1 cm (8 1/4 × 10 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1975.62.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mannocci 1988, no. 5, State i/v (C)

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1923

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

1982

  • Russell 1982, 7.

1988

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

Wikidata ID

Q65566991

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