# Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

French, 1604–1682; born in Chamagne; died in Rome

Claude Gellée, called Lorrain after his native duchy, went to Rome as a youth and spent almost his whole life there. He became the most admired landscape painter of his century, creating idealised visions of the Roman Campagna and classical harbours bathed in the golden light of morning or evening, peopled with small biblical and mythological figures. He recorded his compositions in drawings bound into a volume, the Liber Veritatis, as a guard against forgers.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

3 works in the collection.

- [The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-trojan-women-setting-fire-to-their-fleet-met-435908), Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée), ca. 1643. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/queen-esther-approaching-the-palace-of-ahasuerus-met-336489), Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée), 1658. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Perseus and the Origin of Coral](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/perseus-and-the-origin-of-coral-met-459190), Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée), ca. 1671. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.