The Arrival of Marie de Medici at Marseille

The Arrival of Marie de Medici at Marseilles is a Baroque painting by Sir Peter Paul Rubens executed c. 1622–1625.

[2] Marie de Medici commissioned 24 paintings, pictures that depicted historical events in her life, with the intention to decorate the Palais du Luxembourg.

At the bottom of the painting, Neptune and the daughters of Nereus, the Sea God, are seen saluting the Queen.

At the top of the painting, the character Fame is flying overhead, trumpeting the Queen’s arrival.

Rubens uses these symbolic figures to transform a historical event into an allegory that reinforces Marie de' Medici's right to the throne.