Claude Lorrain

Claude Lorrain (born Claude Gellée, dit le Lorrain; traditionally just Claude in English) (c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and engraver of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is admired for his achievements in landscape painting.

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