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| Claude Lorrain Trees ca. 1650 wash drawing British Museum |
This group of tree drawings by Claude Lorrain (1600-1682) provided me with a sufficient motive to leave the house just after sunrise on this bright cold New Year's Day. Earlier in the week I had walked past a startling example of an actual Claude Lorrain tree-clump in Golden Gate Park. There it stood in the middle of San Francisco, like a time-traveler from 17th-century Rome. On the day I saw this unexpected sight I did not have a camera, but I took one along this morning to prove that the mystical resemblance was no fantasy.
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| Laurels Golden Gate Park 1 January 2016 |
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| Claude Lorrain Pine tree 1665 drawing British Museum |
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| Claude Lorrain Tree ca. 1640-50 drawing British Museum |
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| Claude Lorrain Trees and dancers ca. 1660-65 drawing British Museum |
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| Claude Lorrain Trees on pink paper ca. 1650 drawing British Museum |
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| Claude Lorrain Tree at Villa Madama ca. 1638 drawing British Museum |
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| Claude Lorrain Tree ca. 1635 drawing British Museum |
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| Claude Lorrain Farm buildings ca. 1640 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Claude Lorrain Landscape with river ca/ 1655 drawing British Museum |
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| Claude Lorrain Trees ca. 1645 drawing British Museum |
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| Claude Lorrain View with trees ca. 1638-40 drawing British Museum |
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| Claude Lorrain Landscape with trees ca. 1638 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Claude Lorrain Landscape with pine grove ca. 1635-38 wash drawing British Museum |