Claude Gellée, called Lorrain - A Classical Landscape

This painting, which hangs in the First Salon at Weston Park, first came to the House in 1735, and is by the French painter Claude Lorrain. Claude's landscapes, with their beautiful golden sections, weere highly prized in the eighteenth century, being seen to embody the classical ideals of landscape and to depict the types of arcadian landscape that would have been known to the classical poets. CApability Brown's landscapes saught to emulate the gentle pastoral beauty that Claude painted.