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Claude Lorrain (c. 1600 - November 21 or 23, 1682) was a French artist of the Baroque era who was active in Italy, is admired for his achievements in landscape painting. Lorrain the second was born into poverty in the village of Chamagne, Vosges in Lorraine. He was one of five children. His actual name was Claude Gellee, but he is better known by the province in which he was born. Orphaned by age of twelve, he went to live at Freiburg with an elder brother, Jean Gellee, a woodcarver. He afterwards went to Rome to seek a livelihood and then to Naples, where he apprenticed for two years under Godfrey Waals. He returned to Rome in April 1625 and was apprenticed to Augustin Tassi.
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