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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.
In 1625, Claude Lorrain left his teacher Agostino Tassi and returned to Nancy, the capital of the duchy of Lorraine, to work as an assistant to the artist Claude Deruet. During this time, he contributed to the creation of frescoes for the Carmelite church, though these works have since been destroyed.1