Harbor Scene with a Lighthouse

Description

Claude arrived in Rome around 1613 and apprenticed himself to Agostino Tassi, a landscape painter. Except for a brief return to his native Nancy in 1627, he remained in Rome for the rest of his life.

Harbor Scene with a Lighthouse

Claude Lorrain

1638–41

Accession Number

133358

Medium

Etching on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Sheet, cut within platemark: 14.5 × 20.4 cm (5 3/4 × 8 1/16 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection