Claude Lorraine and landscape gardening

To the lover of the fine arts, the name of Claude Lorraine cannot fail to suggest examples of beauty in some of its purest and most simple forms. In the best pictures of this master, we see portrayed those graceful and flowing forms in trees, foreground, and buildings, which delight so much the lover of noble and chaste beauty,-compositions emanating from a harmonious soul, and inspired by a climate and a richness of nature and art seldom surpassed.