# Landscape with Jacob and Rachel at the Well \(Morning\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CLAUDE LORRAIN]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 113 x 157 cm ## Commentary Landscape with Jacob and Rachel at the Well \(Morning\) 1666 Oil on canvas, 113 x 157 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Although the majority of Claude's landscapes incorporated biblical, mythological, or genre scenes, his main theme was transformations of light; indeed, many of his series are devoted to times of day. Nature was his passion, as demonstrated not only by his superb sketches made on location, but also by his practice, highly unusual for the 17th century, of mixing paints while watching a sunrise or sunset, to be used later in the studio. ## Related artworks - [A Mediterranean Seaport]() - [A Seaport at Sunrise]() - [Aeneas's Farewell to Dido in Carthago]() - [Apollo and the Muses on Mount Helion \(Parnassus\)]() - [Apollo Guarding the Herds of Admetus]() - [Coast Scene with the Rape of Europa]() - [Embarkation of St Paula Romana at Ostia]() - [Erminia and the Shepherds]() - [Flock of Sheep in the Campagna]() - [Forest Path with Herdsmen and Herd]() - [Harbour Scene at Sunset]() - [Harbour Scene]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()