Landscape with Polyphemus

Landscape with Polyphemus (French: Paysage avec Polyphème) is a 1649 painting by Nicolas Poussin, a French painter.

Landscape with Polyphemus
French: Paysage avec Polyphème
ArtistNicolas Poussin
Year1649 (1649)
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions150 × 198 cm
LocationHermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

Theme

The artwork refers to a Spanish literary work La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea and Ovid's Metamorphoses.[1] The oil painting was commissioned by French banker Jean Pointel[2] and pictures characters from the Greek mythology. In the foreground pictured are semi-nude nymphs, being watched by satyrs hidden in the nearby bushes. On green fields behind them are people listening to music played on a flute by the Cyclops Polyphemus, who in turn appears to be blended into rocky mountains in the background.

History

In 1722, the painting was acquired for the Spanish king Philip V by Andrea Procaccini, a student of Carlo Maratta.[3] Currently, the artwork is located in Saint Petersburg as part of the Hermitage Museum's collection.[4]

References
  1. Paulino Arguijo de Estremera (2015). Falsa identidad (in Spanish). Tau Editores. ISBN 9788416398256. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  2. Anthony Blunt (1945). The French Drawings in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle. London: Phaidon Press.
  3. Miguel Morán Turina. "Colección de Felipe V" (in Spanish). www.museodelprado.es. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  4. "Art works: Landscape with Polyphemus". www.hermitagemuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
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