Landscape with Polyphemus

Landscape with Polyphemus (Paysage avec Polyphème) is a 1649 oil painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin.

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

Theme

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