The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet
Classical Mythology
€39,90
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet, painted in 1643 by the French master Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) for Cardinal Girolamo Farnese, depicts a dramatic episode from Book V of Virgil's Aeneid. Spurred on by the goddess Juno, the exiled women of Troy set fire to their own fleet in a desperate bid to force their weary, wandering men to abandon their voyage and settle at last in Sicily.
Claude, the preeminent landscape painter of seventeenth-century Rome, subordinates the dramatic narrative to his signature golden, idealized light, framing the burning ships within a serene, classically balanced coastal panorama. Distant storm clouds gathering on the horizon foreshadow the tempest that Jupiter, at Aeneas's plea, would send to extinguish the flames — a poetic touch that reflects Claude's genius for weaving mythological narrative seamlessly into the atmosphere and structure of his landscapes.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) |
| Year | 1643 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 41 3/8 x 59 7/8 in. (105.1 x 152.1 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Baroque |
