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Description: | At one time attributed to Nicolas Poussin, this painting is by a later artist probably working in France in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century when Poussin's classical landscapes set the tone for many artists' work. The painting juxtaposes a contemporary town with mythological figures, a common device that related to the aristocracy's use of the countryside as a place of leisure and fantasy. The figures in the foreground may refer to a passage from Ovid's Fasti where a shepherd gathering leaves for his sheep comes across woodland creatures, including a nymph, the reclining nude woman in the foreground. | Subjects: | Fasti dog); figure; townscape landscape (Italy); mythology (nymph); literature (Ovid IV. 751); animal (sheep | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: French School Æ Previously attributed to Poussin, Nicolas (French painter and draftsman, 1594-1665, active in Italy) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8856... | Go to resource |
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