Paysage_avec_le_port_de_Santa_Marinella
Landscape with the Port of Santa Marinella
Painting by Claude Lorrain
Landscape with the Port of Santa Marinella (Paysage avec le port de Santa Marinella) is an oil on copper painting by Claude Lorrain in the collection of the Petit Palais in Paris. It dates from 1637 or 1638, and is one of a pair commissioned from the artist by pope Urban VIII.[1] It depicts the little harbour of Santa Marinella near Civitavecchia which the Pope wanted to turn into a major port. The other painting in the pair, in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, is a view of Castel Gandolfo, a palace on the banks of Lake Albano. It was acquired by the Petit Palais in 1902 as part of the Dutuit bequest.[2]