Artist: Nicolas Poussin
Date: 1648
Size: 1785 x 1165 cm
Museum: Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
The Athenian general, Phocion, was unjustly executed for treason in the 4th century BC, and his body burnt on the borders of the Athenian state. His wife is shown secretly collecting and illegally hiding his ashes. In one of his most masterly ordered landscapes Poussin offsets the classical city’s calm but severe grandeur against the tense foreground in which the widow’s companion appears to sense the spying youth hidden in the nearby grove. Nature may appear restrained but brooding crags remind us of her immensity and add to this heroic landscape. Poussin’s austere paintings appealed to the learned connoisseurs for whom he painted. This work was commissioned by a wealthy French silk merchant along with its companion showing Phocion’s body being carried out of Athens
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