_Claude_ (French: 1600-1682). _See_ 2.
This picture, when in Sir George Beaumont's collection at Coleorton,
was copied by Constable and called by him "The Little Grove." In 1823
Constable wrote to a friend, "I have likewise begun 'The Little Grove'
by Claude; a noonday scene 'which warms and cheers, but which does
not inflame or irritate.' Through the depths of the trees are seen a
waterfall and a ruined temple, and a solitary shepherd is piping to
some goats and sheep:--
'In closing shades and where the current strays,
Pipes the lone shepherd to his feeding flocks.'"
(Leslie's _Life of Constable_, 1845, p. 119.)