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Claude Lorrain
Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father, oil on canvas by Claude Lorrain, c. 1644; in the Louvre, Paris. 119 Ć 150 cm.
According to his first biographer, Joachim von Sandrart, Claude Lorrain was indeed brought up to be a pastry cook before he pursued his career as an artist.1
While he received little formal schooling in his youth, he eventually traveled to Rome, where he trained under the landscapist Agostino Tassi and became one of the most influential masters of landscape painting in the 17th century.1