Time, Apollo, and the Seasons (Le Temps, Apollon et les Saisons)

1662

Claude Lorrain

Associated Names
Claude Lorrain

Artist, French, 1604/1605 - 1682

The image shows a wide landscape with distant hills, a forested area, ruins with columns and arches, foliage, and figures in classical attire dancing. There is a winged figure nearby. The brushstrokes are detailed and the color palette is monochromatic with shades of brown and sepia.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Accession Number

    1978.56.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mannocci 1988, no. 43, State v/vii (A)

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1987

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., November 1987.

Bibliography

1923

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

1982

  • Russell 1982, 50D.

1988

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

Wikidata ID

Q65566995

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