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Orpheus and Eurydice

Style of Nicolas Poussin French
Not on view

When one of The Met’s greatest benefactors, Louisine Havemeyer (1855–1929), purchased this landscape in 1907, it was thought to be by Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665). Today it is generally believed to be by a seventeenth-century imitator, perhaps copied from a lost original by Poussin.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Orpheus and Eurydice
  • Artist: Style of Nicolas Poussin (French, third quarter 17th century)
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 47 1/2 x 70 3/4 in. (120.7 x 179.7 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
  • Object Number: 29.100.20
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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