This is the last picture of Lorrain. He did not include it in his “Book of Truth” – perhaps because he simply did not have time to do this, he did not have enough life. This work ordered the artist Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna. The plot for it is borrowed from the poem of Virgil “Aeneid.” The hero of the poem Aeneas and his son Ascanius fled from the Troy, destroyed by the Greeks, leading the way to their homeland, to Italy.
When Ascanius once went out to hunt, the goddess Juno, who saw her enemies in Trojans, knocked him to shoot a deer, which was considered a sacred animal. This shot turned into a war between the warriors of Aeneas and the local king. In the battle, Aeneas won and received land as a trophy, which later became the heart of the Roman Empire.
The picture is different airy, almost ghostly atmosphere characteristic of the late Lorrain. The figures look elongated, almost disembodied, the trees are almost transparent, and the color scheme is sustained in silvery shimmering tones.
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