Drawing
Many great landscape drawings were created as preparatory studies, educational exercises, or informational journals and not as finished works of art. We can now study those freely made graphic images for evidence of the drawing essentials, ideas, and procedures that these artists developed.
by M. Stephen Doherty
Pastoral Scene With Classical Figuresby Claude Gellée (called Claude Lorrain), ca. 16401645, pen and brown ink and brush with brown and gray wash over graphite on cream laid paper, 7 9/16 x 10. Collection The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
View of the Acqua Acetosaby Claude Gellée (called…