The Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah (The Mill)

Claude Lorrain’s The Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah, known as The Mill, sets a biblical subject within one of his most harmonious idealized landscapes. On the left, the marriage feast unfolds before a stately watermill; on the right, a wide valley opens toward distant mountains bathed in golden light. Lorrain’s mastery of atmosphere — the glow of the sun, the transparency of the air, the calm of the water — established the classical ideal of landscape that shaped European painting for two centuries.