This is truly an original etching from 1634.

This impression is a perfect match in centimeters to an impression at the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum at 12.9 x 19.5 cm.

SEE IT HERE: https://art.famsf.org/claude-lorrain/le-soleil-levant-harbor-scene-rising-sun-19633030358

There are hundreds of Claude Lorraine fine art pieces online which are mostly afters of etchings.

This image labeled online as an etching is also named "The Rising Sun" which is not the correct name for this image. The proper name is "Harbour Scene With Rising Sun"

Claude Lorraine was a well known artist for paintings, he rarely did etchings. He only produced 30 etchings by plate and he never pressed more than 150 copies of each plate.


Artist:
Claude Lorrain

Date:
1634

Century:
17th Century AD

Media:
Etching
Dimensions:

12.9 x 19.5 cm (image)

Object Type:
Fine Art Print

Claude Lorrain, traditionally just Claude in English (also Claude Gellée, his real name, or in French Claude Gellée, dit le Lorrain) (c. 1600 – 21 or 23 November 1682) was an artist of the Baroque era who was active in Italy, and is admired for his achievements in landscape painting and etching.




Claude was born in 1604 or 1605 into poverty in the town of Chamagne, Vosges in Lorraine – then the Duchy of Lorraine, an independent state until 1766 and now in northeast France. He was one of five children. His actual name was Claude Gellée, but he is better known by the province in which he was born. Orphaned by age of twelve, he went to live at Freiburg with an elder brother, Jean Gellée, a woodcarver. He afterwards went to Rome to seek a livelihood and then to Naples, where he apprenticed for two years, from 1619 to 1621, under Goffredo (Gottfried) Wals. He returned to Rome in April 1625 and was apprenticed to Agostino Tassi. He got into a fight with Leonaert Bramer.

He apparently was able to tour in Italy, France and Germany, including his native Lorraine, suffering numerous misadventures. Claude Deruet, painter to the duke of Lorraine, kept him as assistant for a year; and at Nancy he painted architectural subjects on the ceiling of the Carmelite church.

An impression from the same plate is at the San Francisco Museum Of Art. Visit this link for more details.

This item has a stain on the left hand side and can be professionally cleaned for $50.

The value of this piece is at least 10k.

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