Lorrain's art offers an idealized conception of nature, taking as a source of inspiration the Roman countryside, but transformed in a process of intellectual elaboration, marked by the proportions of symmetry and distributiom. He is the painter par excellenc of light and its effect on the countryside, enveloping it in a golden atmosphere. His landscapes are humanized, with little figures that serve as a pretext to give a title to the work and that gradually disappear during his career. This picture is signed and dated in the bottom lefthand corner, the register confirming its authenticity in the "Liber veritatis" with the number 158. It belongs to his period of maturity, showing us all his art in this dusk of golden light, in which the figures of the New Testament are placed.
