Landscape with St Paula of Rome Embarking at Ostia
Landscape with Saint Paula of Rome Embarking at Ostia or The Embarkation of Saint Paula is an oil-on-canvas painting by Claude Lorrain. It was painted in 1639–1640 as one of a series of works commissioned by Philip IV of Spain for a gallery of landscapes at the Palacio del Buen Retiro – he also commissioned works from Nicolas Poussin, Herman van Swanevelt, Jan Both, Gaspard Dughet and Jean Lemaire. It is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.[1]
The series Lorrain produced for the Palacio del Buen Retiro included four in horizontal format, completed during 1635–1638 (Landscape with the Temptation of St Anthony, Landscape with St Onuphrius, Landscape with St María de Cervelló and a lost work) and four in a vertical format, completed during 1639–1641 (Landscape with Tobias and Raphael, Landscape with Saint Paula of Rome Embarking at Ostia, Landscape with the Finding of Moses and Landscape with the Burial of St Serapia). The theme of saints and biblical figures (in this case Paula of Rome leaving Ostia) was imposed on the artist by the count-duke of Olivares, who directed the work.[2]
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- The Flight into Egypt (1635)
- Landscape with St María de Cervelló (1637)
- Landscape with the Port of Santa Marinella (c. 1637–1638)
- Landscape with the Temptation of St Anthony (c. 1638)
- Landscape with Apollo and Marsyas (c. 1639)
- Village Fête (1639)
- Landscape with the Finding of Moses (1639–1640)
- Landscape with St Paula of Rome Embarking at Ostia (1639–1640)
- Landscape with the Burial of St Serapia (1639–1640)
- Landscape with Tobias and Raphael (1639–1640)
- Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula (1641)
- The Trojan Women Set Fire to their Fleet (c. 1643)
- The Ford (1644)
- The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (1648)
- The Battle of the Milvian Bridge (1655)
- The Rape of Europa (1655)
- Landscape with Psyche Outside the Palace of Cupid (1664)
- Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia (1682)
- Liber Veritatis (1635–1682)
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