The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba by Claude Gellée: a luminous and harmonious painting of the French Renaissance
The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba is an oil painting on canvas by the French painter Claude Gellée, known as “Le Lorrain,” created in 1648. The painting depicts a biblical scene of the departure of the Queen of Sheba to visit King Solomon in Jerusalem, transposed into an idealized maritime landscape. The canvas measures […]
