A Wooded River Landscape — Lorrain Pillow

Claude Lorrain drew this sun-drenched river landscape in 1661, in pen and brown ink with brush and wash over black chalk. It illustrates a story from the Book of Genesis in which Jacob offers to tend Laban's flocks in exchange for the hand of his younger daughter, Rachel — a small narrative tucked into an expansive view of trees, water, and a distant Roman aqueduct. Claude, who left his native Lorraine as a young man and made the Italian countryside his lifelong subject, often used biblical and mythological episodes like this one as a pretext for composing idealized, light-filled landscapes. The drawing, now in the Art Institute of Chicago, shows the pastoral grandeur that made him the most influential landscape artist of the seventeenth century.

Jacquard-woven both sides in soft, durable yarn; insert included.