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Landscape with Dancing Figures

Landscape with Dancing Figures

Artist/Maker (English, 1743–1822)
after (French, 1600–1682)
Date1775
MediumEngraving and mezzotint with applied watercolor
DimensionsImage: 8 3/16 × 10 3/16 in. (20.8 × 25.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 1/16 in. (28.9 × 38.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Vixseboxse Gallery
PortfolioLiber Veritatis
Object number1984.13
Status
Not on view
More Information
Claude Lorrain achieved great renown for his paintings of ideal landscapes populated by shepherds and animals. In an effort to discourage a growing number of forgeries of his work, in the 1630s he began to draw copies of his paintings, which he compiled in a large book called the Liber Veritatis, or Book of Truth. From 1774 to 1777, the English printmaker Richard Earlom made prints after Claude’s drawings in the Liber Veritatis. These prints had a significant influence on the development of British landscape art: for example, they inspired J. M. W. Turner to make his Liber Studiorum.
Exhibition History
The Grand Tour: Representations and Recollections of Italy, 1750-1850
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 28, 1997 - January 4, 1998 )
Surveying the Ruin: The Architectural Landscape on Paper
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 1, 2005 - August 21, 2005 )
Picturing the Land
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 9, 2021 - August 13, 2021 )
Collections
  • European
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