CLAUDE LORRAIN
(b. 1604, Chamagne, d. 1682, Roma)

Forest Path with Herdsmen and Herd

c. 1633
Oil on canvas, 31 x 52 cm
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

This landscape is one of the few oil paintings known by Claude today that can be regarded as studies from nature. Otherwise Claude's studies of nature are recorded exclusively in drawings.