Claude Deruet

Training under Jacques Bellange is recorded. Claude Lorrain is recorded as having studied under Claude Deruet. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Nancy, Italy and Paris. Works named in the authority record are Battle between the Amazons and the Greeks. Work by Claude Deruet is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg and Musée Carnavalet.

Deruet was an apprentice to Jacques Bellange, the official court painter to Charles III, Duke of Lorraine. He was in Rome between ca. 1612 and 1619, where - according to André Félibien - he studied with the painter and etcher Antonio Tempesta. During his stay in Rome, he painted the Japanese samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga on a visit to Europe in 1615. Deruet was made a noble by the Duke of Lorraine in 1621, and was then made a Knight of the Order of St Michel in 1645 by Louis XIII, who had in 1641 absorbed most of Lorraine into France. He had a luxurious residence in Nancy, named La Romaine, where Louis XIII and his Queen stayed in 1633. Claude Lorrain was an apprentice to Claude Deruet in 1623 for one year. He also married and had two sons, one of whom became a painter. American architect DeWitt H. Fessenden wrote a biography of Deruet, The Life and Works of Claude Deruet, in 1952.