1. Born in Chamagne, a little village snug in the valley
of the Moselle, what is the real name of "Claude, le lorrain?
a-
Claude Gericault
b- Claude Gellée
c- Claude Géné
2. What year was he born?
a-
in 1400
b- in 1500
c- in 1600
3. What kind of family did he come from?
a- peasant
b- noble
c- small merchant
Flight to Egypt
Orphaned at 12, penniless and probably uneducated, he joined his brother's
wood-carving shop in Fribourg-en-Brisgau.
In 1618, he goes to Italy and takes a job as a helper, then as a student and
finally as an assistant in the studio of the landscape painter Agostino Tassi. In
1625, he returns to Lorraine and works in the studio of the painter Claude Deruet
for the dukes of Lorraine until 1627.
"rest during the flight to Egypt"
(click to see the whole painting)
4. Which city did he establish himself in ?
a-
Nancy
b- Chamagne
c- Fribourg-en-Brisgau.
"Having studied the Italian and Northern traditional art, le
painting of light became the major preoccupation of Le Lorrain. He wants to
translate the poetry of the different hours of the day. (sea Port at sunset, 1644;
Sea Port at sunrise, 1674)" *
5. According to this description, Le Lorrain is a precursor of which
group of painters?
a-
the classics
b- the symbolists
c- the impressionists
Around 1630, Claude Le Lorrain knows success and Philip of Spain orders a
group of large paintings from him. (l'Embarquement de sainte
Séraphine, l'Embarquement de sainte Paule, etc.).He then starts his Liber
Veritatis, a registry of 95 drawings, where he condenses in beautiful
studies the essentials of his work.
6. What is the name of this painting?
a-
The Port of Marseilles
b- The arrival of
Cleopatra in Tarsus
c- Departure from Venice
Around 1640 a transformation took place in his style; the countryside is there
to put into value the light, which escapes from the center of the composition, which in
turn puts the sea or river into value.
(click to see the whole painting)
7.What is the name of this painting?
a-
Sermon on the Mount
b- Landscape with Apollo and
Mercury
c-Flight
to Egypt
His last works are beautiful metaphysical poems on the grandeur of nature where,
with modesty and nobility, he exposes an ideal view of the world in serious scenes which
seem to be timeless and bathed in peace.*
(click to see the whole painting)
8. What is the name of the painting above?
a-
The judgment of Paris
b- The judgment of St. Louis
c- The Sermon on the Mount
9. In 1627 he left Lorraine, which was going to endure the ravages of the Thirty
Years War, (Claude Gelée was a contemporary of the painter Jacques Callot) and moved
permanently to ____?_____ where he did not stop painting until his death in 1682.
a-
Paris
b- Strasbourg
c- Rome
10. Which artist of the romantic period (1800), influenced by Le
Lorrain, painted the picture on the left.