Landscape with the Port of Santa Marinella

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.

[2] Although Lorrain visited Santa Marinella to sketch, the painting is not an accurate view, but rather an idealised representation of the landscape.

The painting actually shows less detail than existed in reality near that location, focusing instead on creating a fantasy landscape suffused with light, illuminating the depths of the scene and reflecting off the sea.

The painting combines great physical beauty on its surface, with dense and detailed brushstrokes with a richness of the pigments.

In general, his pastoral landscapes are bathed in the clear light of morning, while his seascapes are lit with the long rays of the setting sun.