zhe la', (1600-1682), a French landscape painter and etcher, generally known as Claude Lorrain. After studying in Naples and Rome, he traveled through Germany and France, then returned to Italy and settled in Rome, where he enjoyed the patronage of the popes Urban VIII and Clement IX. Among his famous paintings are the Embarkation of Saint Ursula, in the National Gallery, London; the Finding of Moses, in the Madrid Gallery; the Expulsion of Hagar, at Munich, and the Village Dance and the Landing of Cleopatra at Tarsus, in the Louvre, Paris. His pictures are noted for the brilliant effects of light reflected in the sky, clouds and water and for the poetic feeling shown in the interpretation of nature.