Seascape - Claude Lorrain

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

"Seascape" by Claude Lorrain (n.d.) Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laid card.

Commentary

"Seascape" by Claude Lorrain (n.d.) invites a close look at how form and feeling work together. Themes to notice include drawings (visual works). This piece is held in the source collection's Prints and Drawings collection. Claude Lorrain is the artist behind this work. A useful anchor for reading the piece: After Claude Lorrain French, 1600-1682. The work is cataloged within a France cultural context. How to look at this work: It is cataloged as drawings (visual works), which gives a clue to how the museum frames the object. Its medium (Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laid card) affects texture, durability, and how detail reads at different distances. Its listed dimensions (27.3 × 38.8 cm (10 3/4 × 15 5/16 in.)) suggest how intimate or monumental it may feel in person. Subject cues from the catalog include drawings (visual works). Compare this reading with the museum record at the source collection: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/85296

Sources: Art Institute of Chicago; Art Institute of Chicago / Public Records; Art Institute of Chicago Collection Data