Updated November 2026 · ranked by our popularity score (searches, visits and orders for each work) · 325 works by Claude Lorrain in our catalogue
In short
To the gallery's eye, Claude Lorrain's most famous painting is Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing (1641), whose original hangs in the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo. View of La Crescenza (1648) and Ideal View of Tivoli (1644) complete the trio every eye recognises. Of the 325 works by Claude Lorrain in our catalog, the gallery presents the 100 most famous below, each original with its year, its museum and what makes it unique.
In the heart of the Baroque era, few artists possessed the ability to capture the ephemeral dance of light as masterfully as Claude Lorrain. His 1641 masterpiece, Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing, is not merely a painting but an invitation into a lost paradise. As the eye wanders across this monumental canvas, one is immediately struck by the sense of profound tranquility and idealized beauty that defines the concept…
To gaze upon Claude Lorrain's View of La Crescenza is to step across the threshold of time and into an idealized vision of the Italian landscape. This painting does more than merely depict a scene; it captures a profound sense of pastoral tranquility, a moment suspended between history and perfect repose. The subject matter itself—a view encompassing a medieval fortress gracefully adapted into a country house for the aristocratic Crescenzi…
The scene unfolds within a lush, green expanse where nature and architecture exist in quiet equilibrium. A waterfall descends through the center of a dense forest, introducing movement to an otherwise still landscape. In the distance, a castle rises against the horizon, providing a structural anchor to the wilder elements of the terrain. Scattered throughout the foreground and middle ground, cattle, horses, and sheep graze peacefully among small groups of…
In the luminous realm of Claude Lorrain’s Acis and Galatea, the boundaries between the earthly landscape and the divine myth blur into a single, breathtaking moment of classical repose. Painted in 1657, this masterpiece serves as a profound window into the Baroque era's obsession with idealized nature and timeless romance. The scene unfolds along a tranquil coastline, where the gentle rhythm of the waves meets a shore populated by figures…
The technique used to achieve such a specific, golden radiance is nothing short of miraculous. The artist treats light as a primary subject, using it to define the depth and volume of the entire scene. By placing the sun as the direct source of illumination, the foreground and middle distance are pushed into sharp relief, while the background dissolves into a soft, atmospheric haze. This method creates a sense of…
The sun hangs suspended in a warm, amber glow, casting a soft light across a wide, expansive landscape that feels both lived-in and dreamlike. In this tranquil setting, the air seems to hum with the quiet energy of a summer afternoon. Near the water's edge, a group of figures gathers, their movements suggesting a spontaneous moment of joy. Some dance with a light, rhythmic grace, while others stand in small…
To gaze upon this depiction, View of Delphi, is to be transported across the centuries to a moment suspended between myth and sublime natural beauty. Claude Lorrain masterfully captures not merely a location, but an entire atmosphere—a confluence of human endeavor, divine suggestion, and untamed nature. The scene unfolds with breathtaking scope: a majestic, rocky hillside dominates the background, crowned by the imposing silhouette of a castle, suggesting both civilization's…
In the quietude of Landscape with a Goatherd, created in 1637, we are invited into a realm where time seems to suspend its forward march. Claude Lorrain, a master of the Baroque era, does not merely paint a scene; he orchestrates an atmosphere. The canvas unfolds as a serene pastoral vision, where a solitary goatherd tends to his flock amidst a lush, verdant expanse. As one gazes upon this masterpiece,…
The artwork titled Pastoral landscape is a painting by the artist Claude Lorrain. This specific work is dated 1636. It is also recognized by the alternative title Diamond Claude, a name derived from its faceted format and the medium used for its execution.
In this 1638 oil on canvas, we find ourselves looking through a window into an idealized world. The composition uses a repoussoir technique, where the dark, detailed elements of ancient architectural ruins on the left and the heavy, leafy trees on the right frame a luminous central vista. This structure directs the eye toward a receding landscape of undulating hills and misty mountains. There is a profound sense of stillness…
Imaginary View of Tivoli1642 · Courtauld Gallery
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Landscape with Narcissus and Echo
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Landscape with Christ on the Road to Emmaus1660 · Hermitage Museum
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The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba1648 · National Gallery
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Landscape with the Rest on the Flight to Egypt, 16601660 · Albertina
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Landscape with an Imaginary View of Tivoli1642 · Courtauld Gallery
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Rest on the Flight into Egypt1640 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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Capriccio with ruins of the Roman Forum1634 · Art Gallery of South Australia
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Forest Path with Herdsmen and Herd1633 · Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
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Landscape with Tobias and the Angel (Evening)1663 · Hermitage Museum
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Pastoral with the Arch of Constantine1648 · Kunsthaus Zürich
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The Mill1631 · Museum of Fine Arts
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Marine with the Trojans Burning their Boats1643 · Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Judgment of Paris1645 · British Museum
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Port Scene with the Embarkation of St Ursula1641 · National Gallery
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Ideal Landscape with the Flight into Egypt1663 · Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
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Port Scene with the Departure of Ulysses from the Land of the Feaci1646 · The Louvre
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Landscape with Flight into Egypt1663
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Landscape with Shepherds1645 · Szépművészeti Múzeum
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Evening Landscape with Dense Group of Trees1643 · Bavarian State Painting Collections
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Panorama from the Sasso1649
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Coast Scene with the Rape of Europa1667 · Royal Collection
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Ford of a River1636 · Museo del Prado
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Harbour with Villa Medici1637
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The Judgement of Paris1645 · National Gallery of Art
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Villa in the Roman Campagna1645 · Szépművészeti Múzeum
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Evening at the Harbour1640 · Hermitage Museum
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Landscape with Psyche in front of Cupid1663 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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Landscape with Apollo and the Muses1652 · Scottish National Gallery
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A Seaport at Sunrise1674 · Alte Pinakothek
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Landscape with Dancing Figures1669 · Hermitage Museum
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Landscape with the Rest during the Flight into Egypt1647
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Landscape with Christ appearing to St. Mary Magdalene (1681 · Städel Museum
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Pastoral Landscape1636
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Landscape with Merchants1630 · National Gallery of Art
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Pastoral LandscapeBarnes Foundation
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Landscape with Shepherds1646
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Harbour SceneBritish Museum
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The Disembarkation of Cleopatra at Tarsus1642 · The Louvre
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Roman Ideal Landscape with Cephalus, Procris, and Diana1635 · Gemäldegalerie
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Setting out with the Herd1636 · Museo del Prado
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Landscape with the Flight into Egypt1647 · Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
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Tiber Landscape with Castel SantAlbertina
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Coast View with the Abduction of Europa1650 · J. Paul Getty Museum
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The Embarkation of St. Paula in Ostia
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Pastoral Landscape1677 · Kimbell Art Museum
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View of the CampagnaBritish Museum
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View of La Crescenza1649
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Landscape with Aeneas at Delos1672
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Egeria weeps over Numa1669
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Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon1643 · Wadsworth Atheneum
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Landscape with Saint Onuphrius1638 · Museo del Prado
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A Seaport at Sunset1643 · Detroit Institute of Arts
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TreesThe Louvre
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Port with Capitol1630
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Landscape with Brigands1633
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Landscape with the Flight into Egypt1639 · Musée Des Beaux
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Landscape with a Shepherd and Shepherdess1636 · Hood Museum of Art
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A Pastoral Landscape1645 · Barber Institute of Fine Arts
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Rest on the Flight into Egypt1640 · Joslyn Art Museum
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Pastoral landscape with Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo1639 · Fitzwilliam Museum
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David Anointed King by the Prophet Samuel1637
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Rest on the Flight into Egypt1646
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Villagers Dancing1638 · Saint Louis Art Museum
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Landscape with Shepherds - The Pont Molle1645 · Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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Landscape with Jacob and Laban and His Daughters1659 · Norton Simon Museum
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The Adoration of the Golden Calf1660 · Manchester Art Gallery
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Ariadne & Bacchus on Naxos1656 · Arnot Art Museum
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Juno Confiding Io to the Care of Argus1660 · National Gallery of Ireland
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Mill on the Tiber1650 · The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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An Evening Landscape with Mercury and Battus1654
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A Classical Landscape with Cattle Crossing a Stream1670 · Anglesey Abbey
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Landscape with Erminia in Discourse with the Old Man and his Sons1666
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Apollo and the Muses on Mount Helicon1680
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Landscape with Noli Me Tangere Scene1681 · Städelsche Kunstinstitut Und Städtische Galerie
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Landscape with Saint Philip Baptising the Eunuch1678 · Amgueddfa Cymru
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Evening
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Landscape with Dancing Satyrs and Nymphs1646 · National Museum of Western Art
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Landscape with Jacob, Rachel and Leah at the Well (Morning)1666 · Hermitage Museum
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Adoration of the shepherds1600 · Pinacoteca Stuard
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Gathering Grapes1642 · Dulwich Picture Gallery
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The Flight into Egypt1635 · Museum of Art
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The Judgment of Paris1645 · British Museum
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Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula1641 · National Gallery
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Ulysses Returning Chryseis to her Father1644
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Landscape with the Nymph Egeria1669 · Museo di Capodimonte
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Landscape with Ruins, Pastoral Figures, and Trees1650
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Jacob with Laban and His Daughters1676 · Dulwich Picture Gallery
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Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt1666 · Hermitage Museum
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Landscape with Cattle and Peasants1629 · Philadelphia Museum of Art
The four subjects that come back most often in these originals, each with its finest example.
The 8 museums that hold the most of the paintings on this page.
| Museum | City | Works by Claude Lorrain | Paintings from this list |
|---|---|---|---|
 Hermitage Museum |
Saint Petersburg | 13 | Landscape with Christ on the Road to Emmaus, Landscape with Tobias and the Angel (Evening), Evening at the Harbour |
 British Museum |
London | 6 | Landscape with a Goatherd, The Judgment of Paris, Harbour Scene |
 National Gallery |
London | 11 | The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba, Port Scene with the Embarkation of St Ursula, Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula |
 Museo del Prado |
Madrid | 11 | Ford of a River, Setting out with the Herd, Landscape with Saint Onuphrius |
 The Louvre |
Paris | 5 | Port Scene with the Departure of Ulysses from the Land of the Feaci, The Disembarkation of Cleopatra at Tarsus, Trees |
 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
New York | 8 | View of La Crescenza, Marine with the Trojans Burning their Boats |
 Albertina |
Vienna | 3 | Landscape with the Rest on the Flight to Egypt, 1660, Tiber Landscape with Castel Sant |
 National Gallery of Art |
Washington | 3 | The Judgement of Paris, Landscape with Merchants |
Pick a decade to see the original that defines it.
In this oil on canvas, we encounter Landscape with Cattle and Peasants, a work by Claude Lorrain, who was also known as Claude Gellée. This piece holds a particular significance in the artist's development, as it is Claude's first dated work. It was painted in 1629, marking an early moment in a career that would eventually define the landscape genre.
In the quietude of Landscape with a Goatherd, created in 1637, we are invited into a realm where time seems to suspend its forward march. Claude Lorrain, a master of the Baroque era, does not merely paint a scene; he orchestrates an atmosphere. The canvas unfolds as a serene pastoral vision, where a solitary goatherd tends to his flock amidst a lush, verdant expanse. As one gazes upon this masterpiece,…
In the heart of the Baroque era, few artists possessed the ability to capture the ephemeral dance of light as masterfully as Claude Lorrain. His 1641 masterpiece, Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing, is not merely a painting but an invitation into a lost paradise. As the eye wanders across this monumental canvas, one is immediately struck by the sense of profound tranquility and idealized beauty that defines the concept…
In the luminous realm of Claude Lorrain’s Acis and Galatea, the boundaries between the earthly landscape and the divine myth blur into a single, breathtaking moment of classical repose. Painted in 1657, this masterpiece serves as a profound window into the Baroque era's obsession with idealized nature and timeless romance. The scene unfolds along a tranquil coastline, where the gentle rhythm of the waves meets a shore populated by figures…
The technique used to achieve such a specific, golden radiance is nothing short of miraculous. The artist treats light as a primary subject, using it to define the depth and volume of the entire scene. By placing the sun as the direct source of illumination, the foreground and middle distance are pushed into sharp relief, while the background dissolves into a soft, atmospheric haze. This method creates a sense of…
To gaze upon this depiction, View of Delphi, is to be transported across the centuries to a moment suspended between myth and sublime natural beauty. Claude Lorrain masterfully captures not merely a location, but an entire atmosphere—a confluence of human endeavor, divine suggestion, and untamed nature. The scene unfolds with breathtaking scope: a majestic, rocky hillside dominates the background, crowned by the imposing silhouette of a castle, suggesting both civilization's…
In the quietude of the Baroque era, few artists possessed the ability to weave the divine into the terrestrial as masterfully as Claude Lorrain. His 1681 masterpiece, Landscape with Christ Appearing to St. Mary Magdalene, is far more than a mere depiction of a biblical encounter; it is a profound meditation on the intersection of the eternal and the ephemeral. As the viewer’s eye wanders across the serene Provençal vista,…
Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing (1641), Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo. View of La Crescenza (1648) and Ideal View of Tivoli (1644) come next.
41 years old: Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing dates from 1641, and Claude Lorrain was born in 1600.
Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing, View of La Crescenza, Ideal View of Tivoli, Acis and Galatea, The Enchanted Castle (also known as Landscape with Psyche outside the Palace of Cupid), Landscape with Dancing Figures (also known as The Mill), View of Delphi, Landscape with a Goatherd, Pastoral landscape and Pastoral Landscape. The ranking above gives each one's year and museum.
Our catalog holds 325 works by Claude Lorrain, dated from 1629 to 1681.
Mostly in Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg), British Museum (London) and National Gallery (London). The museum table above lists them all.
In 1640s: 35 of the 100 works on this page were made then, Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing among them.
On this page, the earliest is Landscape with Cattle and Peasants (1629) and the latest Landscape with Christ appearing to St. Mary Magdalene ( (1681).
Landscape (48), Trees (42) and Sky (35), across the 100 works on this page.
Oil On Canvas, for 75 of the 100 works on this page.
Baroque, judging by the originals on this page.
Landscape with Christ on the Road to Emmaus, Landscape with Tobias and the Angel (Evening) and Evening at the Harbour: the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg holds 6 of the works on this page.
Born around 1600 in Chamagne, a small village in the Duchy of Lorraine (modern-day France), Claude Lorrain – originally Claude Gellée – remains one of the most celebrated landscape painters of the Baroque period. His early life is shrouded in some mystery, with conflicting accounts of his apprenticeship. One account, by Joachim von Sandrart, suggests a humble beginning as an apprentice to a pastry baker before finding employment with artists in Rome. Another, from Filippo Baldinucci, details earlier training in Naples with Goffredo Wals and later in Rome under Agostino Tassi.
By the 1630s, Claude Lorrain had firmly established himself as the leading landscapist in Italy. His paintings quickly gained recognition for their atmospheric qualities and command high prices. He skillfully blended Italianate landscapes with classical and biblical themes, creating scenes that were both visually stunning and intellectually engaging.
Claude’s early influences included the landscape traditions of Northern Europe, particularly those of the Flemish painters. He also studied the works of Italian Renaissance masters like Titian and Raphael. Over time, his style evolved from darker, more dramatic compositions to lighter, airier scenes characterized by a golden glow.
Claude Lorrain’s impact on landscape painting is immeasurable. He elevated the genre to a level of prestige previously reserved for historical and religious subjects. His works influenced generations of artists, including J.M.W. Turner and Impressionist painters who sought to capture the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere. Today, his paintings are highly valued and can be found in major museums worldwide, particularly the National Gallery (London) and the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Claude Lorrain passed away on November 23, 1682, in Rome. His tombstone in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi bears a simple inscription: “Claude / peintre de / rome / mort / le 23 novembre 1682”. He left behind a legacy as one of the most important and influential landscape painters in Western art history.
