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Claude Lorrain

1600 - 1682

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Claude Lorrain (French: [klod lɔ.ʁɛ̃]; born Claude Gellée [ʒəle], called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is one of the earliest important artists, apart from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, to concentrate on landscape painting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Lorrain has received more than 622,393 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Claude Lorrain is the 96th most popular painter (down from 94th in 2019), the 284th most popular biography from France (down from 272nd in 2019) and the 29th most popular French Painter.

Claude Lorrain is most famous for his paintings of pastoral landscapes.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Claude Lorrain ranks 96 out of 1,421Before him are Lisa del Giocondo, Filippo Lippi, Matthias Grünewald, Vittore Carpaccio, Andrei Rublev, and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. After him are Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Duccio, Sofonisba Anguissola, Canaletto, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, and Hans Memling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1600, Claude Lorrain ranks 4Before him are Charles I of England, Pope Clement IX, and Pedro Calderón de la Barca. After him are Sawney Bean, False Dmitry II, Marie de Rohan, Simeon Bekbulatovich, Maria Celeste, Nicolas Sanson, Kuchum, and Gabriel Naudé. Among people deceased in 1682, Claude Lorrain ranks 2Before him is Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. After him are Feodor III of Russia, 5th Dalai Lama, Evliya Çelebi, Jacob van Ruisdael, Johann Joachim Becher, Jacob Kettler, Alessandro Stradella, Avvakum, Baldassare Longhena, and Thomas Browne.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Lorrain ranks 284 out of 6,011Before him are Simone Weil (1909), Germaine de Staël (1766), Pope Urban IV (1185), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767), Anne of Brittany (1477), and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755). After him are Henri Moissan (1852), Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661), Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), Letizia Ramolino (1750), Robert II of France (972), and Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (1775).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Claude Lorrain ranks 29Before him are Honoré Daumier (1808), Paul Signac (1863), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), Berthe Morisot (1841), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755). After him are William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), Georges de La Tour (1593), Gustave Moreau (1826), Charles Le Brun (1619), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699), and Odilon Redon (1840).