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Which Claude Lorrain painting first used the visible sun to illuminate an entire picture?
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Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father, oil on canvas by Claude Lorrain, c. 1644; in the Louvre, Paris. 119 Ć 150 cm.
The Claude Lorrain painting that first featured a visible sun to illuminate an entire picture is the 1634 work titled Harbour Scene.1
By placing the sun just above the horizon, Claude revolutionized the use of light in landscape painting, using it as the primary source to unify the composition and enhance the sense of recession in depth.1