Perseus and the Origin of Coral, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée), ca. 1671
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Perseus and the Origin of Coral

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome)

ca. 1671

Medium
Black chalk, sepia and black ink, sepia and gray wash heightened with white
Classification
Drawings
Dimensions
10 x 12 13/16 in. (25.4 x 32.5 cm)
Culture
French
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection
Credit line
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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