View of Delphi with a Procession
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée; French, 1600-1682)
1673
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 101.6 × 127 cm (40 × 50 in.); Framed: 128 × 154.4 × 9.9 cm (50 3/8 × 60 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Robert A. Waller Memorial Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This painting of the ancient city of Delphi (in what is now Greece) presents a delicate rendering of the glowing Mediterranean atmosphere. Like many other foreign artists drawn to the ruins of antiquity, French painter Claude Lorrain was fascinated with the ancient Roman Empire. Here, he evoked a serene, bucolic world akin to the poetic vision of the ancient Roman writer Virgil, depicting the ruins restored to their original glory as Claude imagined. This painting was commissioned by Cardinal Carlo Camillo Massimi, an important and erudite collector in Rome.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
