The Embarkation of the Queen Sheba, going to visit Solomon is a masterpiece of Lorrain Claude (1600-1682) for his protector the Duke de Bouillon.
Embarkation of the Queen Sheba is a painting of a biblical episode set in a 17th century Europe harbor with a Roman ruin in the left foreground.
It was signed ‘Claude GE I. V. faict pour son Altesse le Due de Bouillon, anno 1648.’ It was formerly in the collection of the Duke de Bouillon and was purchased in the early part of the French revolution.
Claude, born of humble origins in the independence duchy of Lorraine, rose to become the greatest of all ideal landscape painters. Around 1617 he moved to Italy, where he apprenticed with the landscape painter Goffredo Wals in Naples.
By end of the 1630s he was one of the most sought after landscape painters in Europe. His patrons included Pope Urban VIII and King Phillip IV of Spain.
Seaport with Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba in History
