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Claude Lorraine glass
Also Claude-glass.
[Named from Claud (of) Lorraine (1600–1682), the French landscape painter.]
A somewhat convex dark or coloured hand-mirror, used to concentrate the features of a landscape in subdued tones. Sometimes applied to coloured glasses through which a landscape, etc. is viewed.
1789W. Gilpin Beauty (1792) I. 124 The only picturesque glasses are those, which the artists call Claud Loraine glasses. They are combined of two or three different colours; and if the hues are well sorted..give the objects of nature a soft, mellow tinge, like the colouring of that master. 1824Scott Redgauntlet let. v, Didst ever see what artists call a Claude Lorraine glass, which spreads its own particular hue over the whole landscape which you see through it. 1882E. Gosse Gray viii. 187 Gray walked about everywhere with that pretty toy, the Claude-Lorraine glass in his hand, making the beautiful forms of the landscape compose in its lustrous chiaroscuro. |