ALLEGRAIN, Etienne
(b. 1644, Paris, d. 1736, Paris)

River Landscape

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Oil on canvas : 86 x 136 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

In the last decades of the seventeenth century the ideal landscape of Claude Lorrain was continued by painters such as Étienne Allegrain and Pierre-Antoine Patel (Patel the Younger) who added to it a new type of artificiality which was almost eighteenth-century in character.




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