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

Landscape with Polyphemus
French: Paysage avec Polyphème
Artist	Nicolas Poussin
Year	1649 (1649)
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	150 × 198 cm
Location	Hermitage 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] Later, it was part of the collection of a French marquess who sold it in 1772 to a Russian prince, with the help of Denis Diderot, in order to pay a gambling debt.[4] It is now located in Saint Petersburg as part of the Hermitage Museum's collection.[5]

References

На других языках

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- [en] Landscape with Polyphemus

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[fr] Paysage avec Polyphème

Paysage avec Polyphème est un tableau du peintre français Nicolas Poussin, composé en 1649 et exposé au Musée de l'Ermitage, à Saint-Pétersbourg en Russie[1]. Cette peinture se réfère à la Fable de Polyphème et Galatée. Elle représente Polyphème, l'un des dieux de la mythologie grecque.

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[ru] Пейзаж с Полифемом

«Пейзаж с Полифемом» (фр. Paysage avec Polyphème) — картина французского художника Никола Пуссена из собрания Государственного Эрмитажа.

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