1600: Claude Gellee is born in Champagne, France
1612 (circa): orphaned, moves to Freiburg to live with brother who teaches him engraving
1613: leaves for Rome, where he becomes a pastry cook in the home of Agostino Tassi, a landscape painter
1623: goes to Naples to study with Flemish artist Goffredo Wals
1625: Returns to Nancy, the city near his hometown village and signs a one-year contract to work for Claude Deruet, a Lorraine fresco artist, in a Carmelite church
1627: returns to Rome on St. Luke's feast day, spends the remainder of his life here
1629: completes Landscape with Cattle and Peasants
1633: joins painters' Academy of St. Luke; student Giovanni Domenico Desiderii living with Claude
1634: completes Morning in the Harbour; completes initial drawing of The Rape of Europa; French artist Sebastien Bourdon imitates Claude's style and passes off this work as his own
1646: completes Coast View with Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl
1653: daughter Agnes is born
1655: completes The Rape of Europa, final product that is delivered to Pope Alexander VII
1656: completes The Sermon on the Mount
1664: completes The Enchanted Castle
1666: completes Morning (Landscape with Jacob, Rachel and Leah at the Well)
1672: completes Night (Landscape with Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)
1682: Claude Gellee dies in Rome
1612 (circa): orphaned, moves to Freiburg to live with brother who teaches him engraving
1613: leaves for Rome, where he becomes a pastry cook in the home of Agostino Tassi, a landscape painter
1623: goes to Naples to study with Flemish artist Goffredo Wals
1625: Returns to Nancy, the city near his hometown village and signs a one-year contract to work for Claude Deruet, a Lorraine fresco artist, in a Carmelite church
1627: returns to Rome on St. Luke's feast day, spends the remainder of his life here
1629: completes Landscape with Cattle and Peasants
1633: joins painters' Academy of St. Luke; student Giovanni Domenico Desiderii living with Claude
1634: completes Morning in the Harbour; completes initial drawing of The Rape of Europa; French artist Sebastien Bourdon imitates Claude's style and passes off this work as his own
1646: completes Coast View with Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl
1653: daughter Agnes is born
1655: completes The Rape of Europa, final product that is delivered to Pope Alexander VII
1656: completes The Sermon on the Mount
1664: completes The Enchanted Castle
1666: completes Morning (Landscape with Jacob, Rachel and Leah at the Well)
1672: completes Night (Landscape with Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)
1682: Claude Gellee dies in Rome