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Original works by Claude Lorrain available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK Coast Scene with the Embarkation of Saint Paul, 1653-55 Landscape near Rome with a View of the Ponte Molle, 1645
Claude Lorrain at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Many works by Claude Lorrain
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK Pastoral landscape with Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo, 1639
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia 11 works by Claude
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 4 works online by Claude
Kress Foundation Collection NEW! (Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans) View of Tivoli at Sunset, 1644
Claude Lorrain at the Louvre Museum, Paris The Adoration of the Golden Calf, drawing, ca.1653
Claude Lorrain at the Louvre Museum, Paris Trees, pen and ink drawing
Claude Lorrain at the Louvre Museum, Paris The Sibyl of Cumae Leading Aeneas to the Underworld, pen and ink drawing, ca.1673
Claude Lorrain at the Louvre Museum, Paris Perseus and the Origin of Coral, drawing
Claude Lorrain at the Louvre Museum, Paris Large Landscape, pen and ink drawing, ca.1645-50
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW! 
Claude Lorrain at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  6 works by Claude Lorrain online
Claude Lorrain at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  The Round Tower Ruptured to Reveal the Statue of the King of the Romans, etching, 1637
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  (Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 7 works by Claude Lorrain
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  Landscape with a Temple of Bacchus
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Landscape with Peasants Returning with Their Herds, ca.1637
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Prado Museum, Madrid 6 works online
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Seascape with Aeneas on Delos, ca.1670-72
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW! Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch) 
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany La Tour ronde/Circular Tower
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Landscape with a round tower and a bay
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Christ Appears before Mary Magdalene
The Royal Collection, London, UK (Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  Pastoral Landscape
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  Pastoral Scene
Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German) 
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto NEW! The Embarkation of Carlo and Ubaldo
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin Pastoral Landscape, ca.1628-30
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin Berger et bergère conversant [Shepherd and Shepherdess Conversing], ca.1651
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio (You may need to click "I accept these terms") An Artist Studying Nature
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts Landscape with the Voyage of Jacob, 1677
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 23 works by or related to the artist
Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida Minerva Visiting the Muses on Mount Parnassus, 1680
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK Jacob with Laban and his Daughters
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK Gathering Grapes
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand Select the artist from the drop-down list
Falmouth Art Gallery, England NEW! The Goatherd
Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland NEW!
Frick Collection, New York City Jacob, Rachel and Leah at the Well, 1666 The Sermon on the Mount, ca.1656 View from Tivoli
Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (in Italian)  Paesaggio con figure danzanti
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Haus der Kunst, Munich (mostly in German)  Christ Appears Before Mary Magdalena (Noli Me Tangere), 1681
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Coast Scene with Europa and the Bull A Pastoral Landscape
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  Pastoral Landscape, 1638
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)  (If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)  Le Bouvier
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France NEW!
Museo Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (in Italian) NEW! 
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France NEW!
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo Landscape with Dancing Satyrs and Nymphs, 1646
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image) Landscape with Cattle and Peasants
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City Landscape with Shepherd and Flock at the Edge of a Wood
Pomona College Museum of Art, California Click on "View objects by this artist"
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  Enée chassant le cerf sur la côte de Libye
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri Villagers Dancing, late 1630s
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas Idyll: Landscape with a Draughtsman Sketching
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW! 
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW! - to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version" - images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image - you can zoom in via the mouse scroll wheel, then click the image and drag it around Pastoral Landscape with a Flight into Egypt, 1663
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California Pastoral Landscape
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing (requires Flash 5; mouseover thumbnails to see artworks)
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City NEW! Untitled (Landscape composition)
Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark (in Danish) 
Virtual Uffizi
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)  Hafenlandschaft, ca.1640
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch) 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
Artcyclopedia Masterscan feature: Seascape with Aeneas on Delos, ca.1670-72
CGFA 
Web Gallery of Art 
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French) 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site NEW!
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms Scroll down to monogram 364
Beloit College Department of Classics The Judgement of Paris
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales Scroll down to the highlights from the Herbst (Autumn) 2005 sale
The Modernist Journals Project
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Claude Lorrain  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW! 
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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 The Etchings of Claude Lorrain
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