Currently not on view
View of Porta San Paolo, Rome,
ca. 1665
One of the most respected painters in the history of Western art, Claude Lorrain found tremendous success with idyllic landscapes that emphasize the radiant effects of light and a sense of naturalism gained from his direct observation of nature. Artistically trained in Nancy in the independent Duchy of Lorraine, Claude moved in 1625 to Rome, where he would remain for the rest of his life. His meticulously painted landscapes reveal the influence of the Dutch artists working in Rome at the time—including Bartholomeus Breenbergh, whose work hangs on the left.
Claude made only forty-four etchings in his career, and all but five were created before 1641. The Wooden Bridge was one of these exceptions, etched at the height of his reputation, when the artist’s abilities had fully matured.southern gates of the ancient Roman walls features the Pyramid of Cestius, a Roman tomb built in an Egyptian style that still stands today.
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ca. 1665
Europe, Italy, Rome, Porta San Paolo
Henry Reveley, Bryngwin, North Wales, stamp (L. 1356); Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., stamp (L.1853a)
- Exhibition of drawings by old masters from the private collection of Prof. Frank Jewett Mather: International Art Center of Roerich Museum: December 18th to 31st, 1930, (New York: Roerich Museum, 1930)., cat. no. 81
- An exhibition of paintings & drawings by Claude Lorrain, 1600-1682, January 19th through February 12th, 1938, (New York: Durlacher Bros., 1938)., no. 7
- "Recent accessions", Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 6, no. 1/2 (1947): p. 7., p. 7
- Claude Lorrain, 1600-1682: paintings, drawings, prints, (Northampton, MA?: Smith College. Museum of Art, 1952?)., no. 16
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Marcel Röthlisberger, "Drawings by Claude Lorrain in American museums", Art quarterly 24 (1961): 346-355.
- Marcel Röthlisberger, Claude Lorrain: the drawings, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1968)., Vol. 1: p. 75; fig. 18
- Helen Diane Russell, Claude Lorrain, 1600-1682, (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1982)., p. 269, drawings no. 59 (illus.)
- Claude Gellée dit le Lorrain 1600-1682: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 17 octobre 1982-2 janvier 1983, Galleries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 15 février-16 mai 1983, (Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1983)., no. 59 (illus.)
- "Sixteenth-to eighteenth-century French drawings from the permanent collection: a checklist of the exhibition," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 42, no. 1 (1983): p. 43-49., p. 49
- Barbara T. Ross, "Notes on selected French old master drawings from the permanent collection," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 42, no. 1 (1983): p. 4-42., p. 5 (illus.)
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 29 (illus.)
