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Village Fête (Claude Lorrain)
''Village Fête'' (or in French language, Fr. ''La Fête villageoise'') is an oil-on-canvas painting of a Fête, village fête by the French Baroque Painting, Baroque painter Claude Lorrain (real name Claude Gellée), painted in 1639 and given to Louis XIV in 1693 together with its companion ''Commons:File:Sea-Port-at-Sunset-1639-xx-Claude-Lorrain.JPG, Seaport at Sunset'', by the landscape architect and gardener André Le Nôtre. It is now in the Louvre, in Paris. History Claude's ''Liber Veritatis'', a register in which he recorded and drew the paintings he had done, has a note on the back of the drawing for the ''Fête'' (No. 13) that the picture had been painted for Urban VIII. Other sources also state that the artist painted a ''Village Fête'' and a ''Commons:File:Sea-Port-at-Sunset-1639-xx-Claude-Lorrain.JPG, Seaport at Sunset'' for Urban VIII, but these two paintings were sold by Barberini, Prince Barberini in 1798. The Louvre painting must therefore be a replica painte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain (; born Claude Gellée , called ''le Lorrain'' in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. 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. By the end of the 1630s he was established as the leading landscapist in Italy, and enjoyed large fees for his work. His landscapes gradually became larger, but with fewer figures, more carefully painted, and produced at a lower rate.Kitson, 6 He was not generally an innovator in landscape painting, except in introducing the sun and streaming sunlight into many paintings, which had been rare before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
