http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/10/claude-lorrain/ Sun, 7 Sep 2008 19:04:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/10/claude-lorrain/#comment-24108 Daniel van Benthuysen Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:53:01 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/10/claude-lorrain/#comment-24108 Fortunately for those of us of modest means, Claude was also an etcher whose copper etching plates survived for a long time after his death with the result that his are not too difficult or too expensive to acquire. His room-mate in Rome was a Dutch artist named Herman van Swanevelt who also etched a good number of plates in the Claudian style of landscape and his plates are also not terribly hard to find. But Swanevelt's work, although frequently compared to Claude, usually conveys the sense of a specific place being recorded rather than Calude's idealized visions. Fortunately for those of us of modest means, Claude was also an etcher whose copper etching plates survived for a long time after his death with the result that his are not too difficult or too expensive to acquire. His room-mate in Rome was a Dutch artist named Herman van Swanevelt who also etched a good number of plates in the Claudian style of landscape and his plates are also not terribly hard to find. But Swanevelt’s work, although frequently compared to Claude, usually conveys the sense of a specific place being recorded rather than Calude’s idealized visions.

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