Landscape with the Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca

after Claude Lorrain (Champagne 1600 – Rome 1682). Oil painting on canvas, The Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca after Claude Lorrain (Champagne 1600 – Rome 1682), 19th century.The ceremony, not related in the Bible (Old Testament, Genesis 24: 6ff) is acted out by figures to the right; wooded landscape, river in centre of middle distance, classical building on the left bank and view of a distant town in the far distance on the right bank, a male and female figure reclining on the ground in the centre, other figures including two females dancing, and clustered centre and right, small number of cattle on the left; distant mountains beyond. A copy of the original, from the Angerstein collection in 1824, in the National Gallery, London, its popular title being 'The Mill', another version of which is in the Doria Pamphilj, Rome. Cardinal Camillo Pamphili, nephew of Pope Innocent X was the first owner of the original in 1648 before his disgrace and it was then sold to Duc de Bouillon(1605-52). Attingham Park, Shropshire (Accredited Museum)