On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P02261
- Author
- Lorraine, Claude (French)
- Title
- Fording a River
- Chronology
- Ca. 1636
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 98 cm x 131 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- No
- Entrance
- COLECCION REAL
- Procedence
- Royal Collection
A bridge and river over a sunset in
the background divide the landscape
in depth. At the center of the
foreground, three shepherds, seven
head of cattle and two goats are
framed by copses of woods on the
right and left.
Light and Nature are the true
protagonists of this composition,
giving it a dramatic feeling which
Lorraine with replace with an
elegant and classical serenity in
his later works.
This work may have been painted for
the Buen Retiro Palace of Felipe IV
(1605-1665), and is a companion to
the work on which its formal
composition depends: The Return of
the Herd (P2260), which is also in
the Prado Museum Collection.
