Giftof Larry Hartford and Torleif Tandstad,
2016.1.16

Claude is regarded as the progenitor of
the picturesque mood in painting.
Artists and theorists as well as landscape
architects in the 18th and 19th centuries
looked to Claude’s paintings for their
framing devices along the right and le
edges of the picture plane and the
so-called “Claudian light” that
permeates the entire scene with a
golden glow. Claude has been a
touchstone for landscape art down to
the present day, as can be seen in the
pair of Wieduwilt landscapes and the
landscape aattributed to Corot.