Landscape with a goatherd and goats, about 1636, Claude Lorrain (1604/5–82) oil on canvas. National Gallery, London

Landscape with goatherd and goats, after Claude  1823, oil on canvas,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, gift of the National Art Collections Fund in 1961

Constable described the French artist Claude Lorrain as ‘the most perfect landscape painter the world ever saw’. He regarded his copies of Lorrain’s work as ‘great delights’ that brought him closer to this artist.