The early work of Raphael . CLAUDE LORRAIN 43 its subject (L. V. 146), painted for Claudes former patron, the Bishopof Montpellier. This has The Tempietto, on the Trinita de* Monti, Rome. The loss is the more to be regretted that, according to Baldinucci,this work was, in the painters own opinion, his best. 4+ CLAUDE LORRAIN CHAPTER IV LATTER YEARS Fame and wealth had come to Claude, but the latter years of hislife were not without their trials. One of these was his failing informs us that from the age of forty Claude was muchtroubled with the gout. To a man of
The early work of Raphael . CLAUDE LORRAIN 43 its subject (L. V. 146), painted for Claudes former patron, the Bishopof Montpellier. This has The Tempietto, on the Trinita de* Monti, Rome. The loss is the more to be regretted that, according to Baldinucci,this work was, in the painters own opinion, his best. 4+ CLAUDE LORRAIN CHAPTER IV LATTER YEARS Fame and wealth had come to Claude, but the latter years of hislife were not without their trials. One of these was his failing informs us that from the age of forty Claude was muchtroubled with the gout. To a man of Claudes active habits such amalady must have been a terrible burden. No more walks in thedewy morning or the misty evening over the Campagna, no more sunnyI days at Tivoli and Subiaco, his old haunt, Villa Madonna, perhaps as afarthest limit, and the Forum for a nearer sketching-ground. Some-times, perhaps, not even that, and the poor artist, mewed up in hisstudio, would be obliged to have recourse to his souvenirs and to hissketches from nature. How much store he set on the latter we knowfrom Baldinucci, who relates that Claude painted one very fi
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