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Artiste: Claude Gellée dit Le Lorrain (Chamagne c. 1600 – 1682 Rome)
Date: 1636
Technique: eau-forte
Dimensions: 20 x 26,5 cm

Catalogue raisonné: Mannocci 17 v/ix

Excellente épreuve dans un tirage vers 1660 sur vergé sans filigrane.

This is the only etching by Claude that depicts a true view of Rome. A painting (now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) of the Campo Vaccino by the Dutch artist Herman van Swanevelt largely provided the inspiration for Claude’s etching and for two related drawings (MRD 122 and 123) and a painting (now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris) commissioned by Philippe de Béthune, French ambassador to Rome. Teresa Pugliatti in her monograph on Agostino Tassi has presented a very good case for linking this etching to a painting, now lost, attributed to Tassi

Lino Mannocci, The Etchings of Claude Lorrain, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1988, p. 137.