Pastoral landscape with Lake Albano, by Claude Lorrain

An image of Pastoral landscape with Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo. Claude Lorrain (French, 1600-1682). Oil on tin, height 30.5 cm, width 37.5 cm, 1639.

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Pastoral landscape with Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo. Claude Lorrain (French, 1600-1682). Oil on tin, height 30.5 cm, width 37.5 cm, 1639.

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Accession Number: PD.950-1963
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/14.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 856 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 145.73kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 14/1
Captured: 2013:10:14 14:01:07

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17th Century Albano animals Arcadia arcadian Castel Gandolfo castles Classicism Claude Lorrain exterior Fitz_PDP flautist flute flute player French grazing groups idyllic Italian Lake Albano livestock music musical instruments musician octagonal oil on tin painting pastoral peaceful peasants playing an instrument resting sheep shepherds staffs wooded woods

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