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Herd at a Watering-Place, 1635

Etching, 10.3 × 16.5 cm

State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

1600: Born in Chamagne in the modern-day Vosges region, in the north-east of France.

c. 1612: Moves to Rome, where he works as a pastry chef, until he is taken on as an apprentice under the landscape painter Agostino Tassi at Bagnaia. He learns the rudiments of landscape and perspective painting.

1617–1621: Travels to Naples for an apprenticeship with the landscapist Gottfried Wals, also known as Goffredo Tedesco.

1625–1626: Travels to Nancy to work alongside the court painter Claude Deruet at the chapel of the Carmelite church (no longer in existence).

1633: Admitted as a member of the Academy of Saint Luke, Rome.

1635: Claude Lorrain publishes his own monograph, the Liber Veritatis (Book of Truth), an inventory of his works portrayed through rough sketches.

1638 onwards: Under the patronage of King Philip IV of Spain.

1640s: Creates a series of paintings of big ports, the most impressive of his career, including Ulysses returning Chryseis to her Father (c. 1644).

1663 onwards: Under the patronage of Prince Colonna.

1682: Dies in Rome and is buried there, in the church of the Santissima Trinità dei Monti.

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