Excerpt from Masters in Art, Vol. 6: Claude Lorrain; September, 1905 During this period of study, and before he had succeeded in producing those landscapes which the connoisseurs of his day sought so eagerly, Claude executed several frescos which are referred to by his biographers with almost unstinted praise. They were landscape subjects, of realistic treatment, but have been either destroyed or repainted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.