ABSTRACT
Claude Lorraine was seventy-eight years of age in 1680, and died about two years after. He also wrote on the back of each drawing the number, with his monogram, the place where, and generally the person for whom it was painted, and sometimes the year; but he never omitted the “Claudio fecit.” The well-known facsimiles by Barlow, in the work published by Boy dell, give but a very general and monotonous representation of these fine drawings. The masterly, light, and delicate mode of the execution, in every gradation, from the slightest to the most finished sketch, really exceeds belief. By the simple means of a penned outline washed with Indian ink, sepia, or bistre, and heightened with white, the character of every time of the day, a sunny or cool misty atmosphere, is expressed; for general tone of the freshness of morning he has most happily made use of blue paper, and for warm glowing tone of evening of sepia.
