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Landscape with St Philip Baptising the Eunuch

Claude Lorraine, 1678

Claude has created a pastoral idyll by soft lighting, a more naturalistic landscape and a fragile quality. The subject merges into the foreground and does not dominate. Inscribed: 'S. Filippo battesta Lenucco della Regina'.

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Title of artwork, date

Landscape with St Philip Baptising the Eunuch, 1678

Date supported

1984

Medium and material

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

85 x 141 cm

Grant

40000

Total cost

500000

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