Title: Claude Lorrain
Content:  Claude Lorrain (born Claude Gellée, called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is one of the earliest important artists, apart from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, to concentrate on landscape painting. His landscapes are usually turned into the more prestigious genre of history paintings by the addition of a few small figures, typically representing a scene from the Bible or classical mythology. By the end of the 1630s he was established 
Title: Claude Lorrain
Content:  the leading landscapist in Italy, and enjoyed large fees for his work. His landscapes gradually became larger, but with fewer figures, more carefully painted, and produced at a lower rate. He was not generally an innovator in landscape painting, except in introducing the sun and streaming sunlight into many paintings, which had been rare before. He is now thought of as a French painter, but was born in the independent Duchy of Lorraine, and almost all his painting was done in Italy; before the late 19th century he was regarded as a painter of the "Roman School". His patrons were also mostly 
Title: Claude Lorrain
Content:  but after his death he became very popular with English collectors, and the UK retains a high proportion of his works. He was a prolific creator of drawings in pen and very often monochrome watercolour "wash", usually brown but sometimes grey. Chalk is sometimes used for under-drawing, and white highlighting in various media may be employed, much less often other colours such as pink. These fall into three fairly distinct groups. Firstly there are large numbers of sketches, mostly of landscapes, and apparently very often done at the scene; these have been greatly admired, and influenced other artists. Then there are 
Title: Claude Lorrain
Content:  esteemed in later centuries, such as with Salvatore Rosa. He painted a pastoral world of fields and valleys not distant from castles and towns. If the ocean horizon is represented, it is from the setting of a busy port. Perhaps to feed the public need for paintings with noble themes, his pictures include demigods, heroes and saints, even though his abundant drawings and sketchbooks prove that he was more interested in scenography. Claude Lorrain was described as kind to his pupils and hard-working; keenly observant, but an unlettered man until his death. John Constable described Claude as "the most perfect landscape painter the world ever saw", and declared that in Claude's landscape "all is lovely – all amiable – all is amenity and repose; the calm sunshine of the heart".
Title: Village Fête
Content: Dullea, Owen J., Claude Gellée de Lorrain, New York, Scribner and Wellford, 1887. ; Chiarini, Marco. Claude Lorrain – Selected Drawings. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1968. ; Michael Kitson, Claude Lorrain, Liber veritatis (British Museum Publications, London, 1978) ISBN: 0-7141-0748-4 ; Russell, H. Diane, Claude Lorrain, 1600–1682, New York, George Braziller, 1982. ; Lagerlöf, Margaretha Rossholm, Ideal Landscape: Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1990. ; Sonnabend, Martin, Whiteley, Jon, Ruemelin, Christian, Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape, Lund Humphries (2011). 
Title: Claude Lorrain
Content: Chiarini, Marco. 1968. Claude Lorrain – Selected Drawings. Pennsylvania State University Press. ; Kitson, Michael. 1978. Claude Lorrain, "Liber Veritatis". British Museum Publications, London. ; Lagerlöf, Margaretha Rossholm. 1990. Ideal Landscape: Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain. New Haven, Yale University Press ; Mannocci, Lino. 1988, The Etchings of Claude Lorrain. Yale University Press ; Rand, Richard, Claude Lorrain: The Painter as Draftsman (exhibition from the British Museum), Yale University Press, 2007 ; Röthlisberger, Marcel, Claude Lorrain: The Paintings, Hawker Art Books, 1979 ; Russell, H. Diane. 1982. Claude Lorrain, 1600–1682 (NGA exhibition). New York, George Braziller. 
Title: Claude Lorrain
Content:  date, circa 1604 or 1605. He was born in the small village of Chamagne, Vosges, then part of the Duchy of Lorraine. He was the third of five sons of Jean Gellée and Anne Padose. According to Baldinucci, Claude's parents both died when he was twelve years old, and he then lived at Freiburg with an elder brother (Jean Gellée). Jean was an artist in inlay and taught Claude the rudiments of drawing. Claude then travelled to Italy, first working for Goffredo Wals in Naples, then joining the workshop of Agostino Tassi in Rome. Sandrart's account of Claude's early years, 
Title: Claude Lorrain
Content:  for paintings, of various degrees of finish, many clearly done before or during the process of painting, but others perhaps after that was complete. This was certainly the case for the last group, the 195 drawings recording finished paintings collected in his Liber Veritatis (now in the British Museum). He produced over 40 etchings, often simplified versions of paintings, mainly before 1642. These served various purposes for him, but are now regarded as much less important than his drawings. He painted frescoes in his early career, which played an important part in making his reputation, but are now nearly all lost.
Title: The Flight into Egypt (Lorrain)
Content:  Claude depicted the Flight into Egypt many times, especially in his earlier works. He never painted anything but landscapes, but he created those with such skill that he elevated the genre to new heights. His poetic vision of nature was so highly regarded by his wealthy seventeenth-century patrons that it helped establish landscape painting as a genre in its own right, just like religious and historical paintings.
Title: Claude Lorrain
Content:  is quite different, and modern scholars generally prefer this, or attempt to combine the two. According to Sandrart, Claude did not do well at the village school and was apprenticed to a pastry baker. With a company of fellow cooks and bakers (Lorraine had a high reputation for pâtisserie), Claude travelled to Rome and was eventually employed as servant and cook by Tassi, who at some point converted him into an apprentice and taught him drawing and painting. Both Wals and Tassi were landscapists, the former very obscure and producing small works, while Tassi (known as the rapist of Artemisia 

Question: What genre is Claude Lorrain?
Answer: landscape art.
landscape painting.
landscape.