. Dictionary of painters and engravers. rentsapprenticed him to a pastry-cook. He afterwardsfound his way to Rome, in company with someother young Lorrainers practising the same voca-tion. Here he lived for some time in the house ofAgostino Tassi, a Perugian landscape and marinepainter, who had studied under Paulus Bril. Heacted as the painters factotum: looked after thekitchen and household affairs, groomed the horse,ground the colours, and cleaned the palettes andbrushes. While engaged on these duties he appliedhimself, with the help of his master, to a diligentstudy of perspective and the g
. Dictionary of painters and engravers. rentsapprenticed him to a pastry-cook. He afterwardsfound his way to Rome, in company with someother young Lorrainers practising the same voca-tion. Here he lived for some time in the house ofAgostino Tassi, a Perugian landscape and marinepainter, who had studied under Paulus Bril. Heacted as the painters factotum: looked after thekitchen and household affairs, groomed the horse,ground the colours, and cleaned the palettes andbrushes. While engaged on these duties he appliedhimself, with the help of his master, to a diligentstudy of perspective and the ground-work of art. According to Baldinucci, when Claude wastwelve years old he became an orphan, and hadto seek the shelter of his eldest brothers had settled at Freiburg, on the opposite bankof the Rhine, where he pursued the arts of woodengraving and carving. From him Claude, whohad already shown a taste for art, received his firstinstruction in drawing. His stay in the Swabiancountry was not long, for about a year after, a. u D O \:
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