Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Adonis / Venus and Adonis / Death of Adonis (Venus not present)
Clytie
Crocus and Smilax
Flora / With amoretti or nymphs
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The fate of the arms of Achilles / Ajax committing suicide
Hyacinthus
Narcissus / With other figures

Further details

Subject-matter perhaps suggested by Ovid's description of the Kingdom of Flowers (Fasti V, 183) and the Metamorphoses; the figures are Ajax, Clytie, Narcissus and Echo, Hyacinthus, Adonis, Crocus and Smilax

Artist or creator

Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665)

Date

1627 (circa)

Location

Windsor, Royal Library (inv. RL 11983)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Walter F. Friedlaender, The drawings of Nicolas Poussin , III, London 1953, p. 35, no. 214, pl. 164; Anthony Blunt, The French drawings in the collection of his Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, Oxford 1945, no. 169, fig. 26

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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