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1. Biography of Claude Lorrain
2. Claude Lorrain passed away in Rome on November 21,

Biography of Claude Lorrain

Claude Lorrain was a French painter, draftsman, and engraver, and one of the creators of classical landscape.

He was born in in Chamagne, Lorraine, which is why he acquired the nickname "Le Lorrain" meaning "the Lorrainer".

During his early years, Claude Lorrain studied engraving in Freiburg-im-Breisgau and then worked in Naples under the guidance of the painter Gottfried Wals.

Claude Lorrain biography. French painter

In , he began studying in Rome under Agostino Tassi. After six years, the artist returned to France, visiting various Italian cities along the way, and worked for about a year in Nancy, assisting the court painter Claude Deruet in painting the vaults of the Carmelite Church.

In , Claude Lorrain returned to Rome. By the s, his landscapes began to attract the attention of art connoisseurs and wealthy patrons, including the Spani lorrain claude biography of abraham1 NUC