Circle of Claude Lorrain (1600-1682) Habour scene -Oil on board

Claude Lorrain ( 1600 -1682) was a painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era originally from the Duchy of Lorraine. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is one of the earliest significant artists, aside from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, to concentrate on landscape painting. His landscapes often transitioned into the more prestigious genre of history paintings by addition of a few small figures, typically representing a scene from the Bible or classical mythology. In the late 1620’s Claude came back to France  and then to Italy. Claude briefly stayed in Marseille, Genoa, and Venice, and had the opportunity to study nature in France, Italy, and Bavaria. Sandrart met Claude in the late 1620s and reported that by then the artist had a habit of sketching outdoors, particularly at dawn and at dusk, making oil studies on the spot. In the 1640’s he made a number of studies for marine paintings

These paintings are with their early venetian frames and can be described as the "circle of" Claude Lorrain. There are two painting s very similar. See other  paintings for sale.