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Nicolas Poussin
Orpheus and Eurydice in a classical landscape
oil on canvas

Catalogue Note

A 17th century copy after Poussin's original in the Musée du Louvre (see P. Rosenberg & L. Pratt, Nicolas Poussin, Paris 2004, p. 409, cat. no. 180, reproduced).

The subject is taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book X, (1-77).