Claude Lorrain (1600 - 1682), The Judgment of Paris, 1645/1646, oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

WASHINGTON, DC.-The art of one of France's greatest landscape draftsmen and painters, Claude Lorrain (1604/1605–1682), traveled to the National Gallery of Art, when Claude Lorrain—The Painter as Draftsman: Drawings from the British Museum opened in the West Building, through August 12, 2007. The exhibition includes 80 drawings from the extensive and important holdings at the British Museum. In addition, a selection of paintings and etchings broadens the representation of Claude's achievement as an artist. Many of the works have never before been seen in the United States. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20499

Claude Lorrain (1600 - 1682), Landscape with the Voyage of Jacob, 1677, oil on canvas. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts