A Wooded River Landscape with Jacob, Laban, and His Daughters

1661·Pen and brown ink, with brush and black, brown and gray wash, and black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card·20.1 × 30.2 cm (7 15/16 × 11 15/16 in.)

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Catalogue

Year: 1661
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and black, brown and gray wash, and black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Dimensions: 20.1 × 30.2 cm (7 15/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Claude Lorrain

Artist

Claude Lorrain

Painting

Claude Lorrain was a painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era originally from the Duchy of Lorraine. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is one of the earliest significant artists, aside from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, to concentrate on landscape painting. His landscapes often transitioned into the more prestigious genre of history paintings by addition of a few small figures, typically representing a scene from the Bible or classical mythology.

Vosges, France

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