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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk

Display artist/maker:

Claude Gellée

Born: 1600, France, Lorrain, Chamagne   Died: 1682, Rome

Painter. Known as 'Claude Lorrain'. Around 1613 he left France for Rome where he became an assistant to Agostino Tassi (c.1580-1644). By 1620 he had moved to Naples where he studied under the landscape painter Gottfried Wals (1595-1638). He returned briefly to France between 1625 and 1627 and was apprenticed to Claude Deruet (1588-1660) for one year. Back in Rome he quickly became successful during the 1630s and from 1635, to combat forgeries of his work, he recorded all his original pieces in his 'Liber Veritatis'. Inspired by the Campagna, he painted classical landscapes with biblical and mythological content. These ideal landscapes became a major influence on British landscape painting. He also produced 44 etchings

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

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[River landscape with bridge and figures engaged in a picnic] PR118 Prints

[River landscape with figures, ferry boat, mill and goats] PR123 Prints

[River landscape with musicians and goats] PR125 Prints

[River landscape with trees, boat and figures] PR157 Prints

[Scene amongst Roman ruins with women embarming a dead man] PR140 Prints

[Scene from Liber Veritatis] PR177 Prints

[Seascape with boats, trees and artist sketching] PR200 Prints

The Embarkation of St Ursula PR145 Prints

[The murdered body of Coronis? is discovered by Apollo? in a landscape] PR179 Prints

[Three men, two with muskets and one sketching, in a classical Italian landscape] PR124 Prints

[Three men, two with muskets and one sketching, in a classical Italian landscape] PR96 Prints

[Travellers on a road near a port] PR138 Prints

[Two angels visit mother and child in a lakeside landscape] PR170 Prints

[Two women in a grove one carrying bow and arrows (Jupiter and Calista?)] PR162 Prints

[Wooded landscape with shepherd, river, cattle and a large villa] PR195 Prints

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