Three Archers and a Figure with a Spear, Claude Lorrain, ca. 1670–72

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Three Archers and a Figure with a Spear, ca. 1670–72, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk underdrawing, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome), Following 17th century hierarchies, Claude’s landscapes were elevated to the loftier realm of history painting by their inclusion of small-scale scenes taken from mythology and ancient history. This sheet of studies relates to the 1672 Coast View of Libya with Aeneas Hunting, in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels painted for Paolo Francesco Falconieri (1626-1696), a prince of Florentine origin living in Rome on the via Giulia in a palace that had been remodelled by Borromini in the 1650s

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