CLAUDE LORRAIN SKETCHBOOK.

Author: Per Bjurström, intro
Country: Sweden
Language: English
Year Published: 1984
No. of pages: 87
Illustrations: 63 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 8 1/2”x 7”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9171002537
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 0495

Price: $59.50

Presenting the sketchbook of French artist Claude Lorrain, known mostly for his captivating landscape paintings. Done mostly in pen and brown ink, this sketchbook contains examples of almost every aspect of his art, techniques as well as themes. Subjects include tree studies, buildings, and landscapes as well as studies of figures and animals. These sketches truly reveal the artist as a virtuoso of the wash, with his remarkable ability in creating atmosphere and a powerful sense of mood in his sheets and paintings. This book includes a leaf-by-leaf examination of this intact sketchbook that offers outstanding insight into the work of this renowned artist.