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Landscape with Acis and Galatea

Claude Lorrain1657

Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden State Art Museums

Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden State Art Museums
Dresden, Germany

In this painting Claude Lorraine has completely marginalized the biblical subject. The small figures of Mary with the Christ child, Joseph and an angel nearly disappear in the darkness of the wooded area to the left. The landscape, depicted in a clear morning atmosphere, gradually recedes into the depths, while the details are painted with precision. Classical buildings, a bridge, a viaduct and the distant silhouette of a city, the beauty of nature and the shepherd's idyll in the foreground, combine into an idealized landscape, in a manner that was characteristic of the artist's works during these years.

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  • Title: Landscape with Acis and Galatea
  • Creator Lifespan: 1600 - 1682
  • Creator Nationality: French
  • Creator Gender: Male
  • Creator Death Place: Rom
  • Creator Birth Place: Lothringen
  • Date Created: 1657
  • Physical Dimensions: w1360 x h1025 cm
  • Painter: Claude Lorrain
  • Collection: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Picture Gallery)
  • Type: Painting
  • Rights: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Photograph: Hans Peter Klut/Elke Estel
  • External Link: http://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/de/contents/show?id=243260
Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden State Art Museums

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