The early work of Raphael . slowworker, was an assiduous one, sometimes producing as many as fivepictures in one year. Among the principal pictures of this period wemay mention the Metamorphosis of the Apuleian Shepherd (L. V, 142),painted for M. Delagarde in 1657, now in the Bridgwater Collection, acombination of landscape and marine with figures of Polyphemus, Actsand Galatea (L. V. 141) for the same patron, now in the DresdenGallery, a very fine Flight into Egypt (L. V. 154) painted for Antwerp,now in the Hermitage, and The Decline of the Roman Empire, now inGrosvenor House, painted, as the
The early work of Raphael . slowworker, was an assiduous one, sometimes producing as many as fivepictures in one year. Among the principal pictures of this period wemay mention the Metamorphosis of the Apuleian Shepherd (L. V, 142),painted for M. Delagarde in 1657, now in the Bridgwater Collection, acombination of landscape and marine with figures of Polyphemus, Actsand Galatea (L. V. 141) for the same patron, now in the DresdenGallery, a very fine Flight into Egypt (L. V. 154) painted for Antwerp,now in the Hermitage, and The Decline of the Roman Empire, now inGrosvenor House, painted, as the inscription in Claudes own writingon the drawing (L. V. 153) shows pour M. le Brun, Roma. Thedrawing (L. V. 82) for a smaller picture of the same subject also bears,but in another hand, the name Lebrun. Possibly this may have been the influential head of the FrenchAcademy. The two artists must certainly have met, Lebrun havingstudied in Rome from 1642 to 1648. Another picture of this period was a landscape with Esther for. CLAUDE LORRAIN 43 its subject (L. V. 146), painted for Claudes former patron, the Bishopof Montpellier. This has disappeared.
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