
Landscape with Saint Paula of Rome Embarking at Ostia orThe Embarkation of Saint Paula is an oil-on-canvas painting byClaude Lorrain. It was painted in 1639–1640 as one of a series of works commissioned byPhilip IV of Spain for a gallery of landscapes at thePalacio del Buen Retiro – he also commissioned works fromNicolas Poussin,Herman van Swanevelt,Jan Both,Gaspard Dughet andJean Lemaire. It is now in theMuseo 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 andLandscape with the Burial of St Serapia). The theme of saints and biblical figures (in this casePaula of Rome leavingOstia) was imposed on the artist by thecount-duke of Olivares, who directed the work.[2]
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