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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 significant artists, aside 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 665,192 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Claude Lorrain is the 107th most popular painter (down from 96th in 2019), the 313th most popular biography from France (down from 284th in 2019) and the 31st 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 107 out of 2,023. Before him are Jean-Antoine Watteau, Sofonisba Anguissola, Bronzino, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Vittore Carpaccio, and Matthias Grünewald. After him are Guido Reni, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Georges de La Tour, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Ivan Aivazovsky, and Annibale Carracci.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Lorrain ranks 313 out of 6,770. Before him are René Goscinny (1926), Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), Constantine II (316), Chlothar I (498), and Raymond Poincaré (1860). After him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Georges Clemenceau (1841), Jean Gabin (1904), Alphonse Daudet (1840), and Diane de Poitiers (1499).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Claude Lorrain ranks 31. Before him are Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), Honoré Daumier (1808), Francis Picabia (1879), Paul Signac (1863), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), and William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825). After him are Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659), Georges de La Tour (1593), Gustave Moreau (1826), Jean Fouquet (1420), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699), and Fernand Léger (1881).

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