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| An Artist, Drawing c. 1640 |
Claude Lorrain (1604-1682) was born in France but established himself at an early age among the foreign-born painters in Rome who made a specialty of landscape. Italian painters of the 17th century seldom chose landscape as a subject in its own right.
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| Aeneas Landing at Pallantium 1677 |
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| Acis & Galatea 1657 |
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| Apulian Shepherds c. 1657 |
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| John the Baptist, Preaching 1640-60 |
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| Landscape with Dancing 1663 |
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| Landscape 1640-60 |
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| Roman Landscape 1640-60 |
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| Study of Trees c. 1635-40 |
The Claude drawings seen here are among those that have remained together for the past 250 years within the stupendous archive of art from Italy maintained in England by the Royal Colleciton.