# The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet, in French classicism

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) painted this in about 1643, aged 39. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Weary of years of wandering, the Trojan women travelling with Aeneas gather on the shore of Sicily and set fire to their own ships, urged on by the goddess Iris in disguise, so that they need sail no further.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1643
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 41 3/8 x 59 7/8 in. (105.1 x 152.1 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 55.119
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/claude-lorrain-claude-gellee), French, 1604–1682

Claude Gellée, called Lorrain after his native duchy, went to Rome as a youth and spent almost his whole life there.

3 works in the collection.

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