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Claude Lorrain Works Online
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Original works by Claude Lorrain available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
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
7 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
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
(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, ca.1653
Claude Lorrain at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Large Landscape
Claude Lorrain at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Perseus and the Origin of Coral
Claude Lorrain at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Sibyl of Cumae Leading Aeneas to the Underworld, ca.1673
Claude Lorrain at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Trees, ca.1640-60
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 
Landscape with a Temple of Bacchus
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
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
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)
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
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
Shepherd and Shepherdess Conversing, ca.1651
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
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 NEW!
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
Select the artist from the drop-down list
Falmouth Art Gallery, England
The Goatherd
Frick Collection, New York City NEW!
Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (in Italian)
Landscape with Dancing Figures
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
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
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, ca.1640
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
2 of these paintings are by Claude Lorrain
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
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
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
River landscape with Tiburtine Temple at Tivoli
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Landscape with Dancing Satyrs and Nymphs, 1646
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Landscape with Peasants Returning with Their Herds, ca.1637
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Idyll: Landscape with a Draughtsman Sketching
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Huntington Library, California
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Pastoral Landscape with a Flight into Egypt, 1663
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Pastoral Landscape
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Landscape Composition
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark (in Danish)
Virtual Uffizi
Harbour with Villa Medici
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Hafenlandschaft, ca.1640
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Quite a few works online
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
Scroll down to the highlights from the Herbst (Autumn) 2005 sale
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project
Landscape with a Goatherd and Goats (National Gallery, London)
Claude Lorrain at The Art Renewal Center
Claude Lorrain in the Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
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 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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
"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.
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The Etchings of Claude Lorrain
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