Bourdon was one of Nicolas Poussin’s most ardent early followers, and he often went to great lengths to display familiarity with the classical references Poussin had pioneered for painting. In this rigorously structured landscape, Bourdon quoted ancient and contemporary works of classical art: the large statue of a horse at the left directly cites a statue found on Rome’s Quirinal Hill, while the group of dancers at the right comes from Poussin’s Bacchanal (ca. 1632–33; National Gallery, London).
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Credit Line:Gift of Atwood A. Allaire, Pamela Askew, and Phoebe A. DesMarais, in memory of their mother, Constance Askew, 1985
Object Number:1985.90
Inscription: Inscribed (left, on monument): U.NE
Earl of Loudon; [Durlacher, New York]; Mrs. Eugene Atwood, Stonington, Conn. (by 1931–d.1942); her daugher (Constance Atwood) and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. R. Kirk Askew Jr., New York (1942–84)
Hartford, Conn. Wadsworth Atheneum and Morgan Memorial. "Retrospective Exhibition of Landscape Painting," January 20–February 9, 1931, no. 20 (as "Landscape with Figures," lent by Mrs. Eugene Atwood, Stonington, Connecticut).
New York. Wildenstein & Co., Inc. "A Loan Exhibition of French Painting in the Time of Louis XIIIth and Louis XIVth," May 9–June 1, 1946, no. 6 (as "Classical Landscape with Figures," lent by Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Askew, Jr.).
Pittsburgh. Carnegie Institute. "French Painting: 1100–1900," October 18–December 2, 1951, no. 59 (as "Classical Landscape with Figures," lent by Mr. and Mrs. R. Kirk Askew, Jr.).
Andover, Mass. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy. "Significant Forms: The Changing Character of Western Art," July 8–September 25, 1961, no. 15 (as "Figures in a Classical Landscape," lent by Mr. and Mrs. R. Kirk Askew, Jr., New York, New York).
New York. Wildenstein & Co. "Gods & Heroes: Baroque Images of Antiquity," October 30, 1968–January 4, 1969, no. 1 (as "Figures in a Landscape," lent by Mr. and Mrs. R. Kirk Askew, Jr.).
Martigny. Fondation Pierre Gianadda. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture européenne," June 23–November 12, 2006, no. 32.
Barcelona. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. "Grandes maestros de la pintura europea de The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York: De El Greco a Cézanne," December 1, 2006–March 4, 2007, no. 26.
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. "Earth, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Western Art—Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 6, 2012–January 4, 2013, no. 2.
Beijing. National Museum of China. "Earth, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Western Art—Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 8–May 9, 2013, no. 2.
Pierre Rosenberg. France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-century French Paintings in American Collections. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1982, p. 230, under no. 12 [French ed., La peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines, Paris].
Keith Christiansen inRecent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1985–1986. New York, 1986, pp. 32–33, ill. (color).
Nicholas H. J. Hall inClaude to Corot: The Development of Landscape Painting in France. Exh. cat., Colnaghi. New York, 1990, p. 64, under no. 12.
Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 364, ill.
Katharine Baetjer inThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture européenne. Exh. cat., Fondation Pierre Gianadda. Martigny, 2006, pp. 180–82, no. 32, ill. (color) [Catalan ed., Barcelona, 2006, pp. 100–101, no. 26, ill. (color)].
Peter Barnet and Wendy A. Stein inEarth, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Western Art; Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. [Tokyo], 2012, p. 42, ill. pp. 36, 44 (color).
Keith Christiansen inEarth, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Western Art; Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. [Tokyo], 2012, pp. 206–7, no. 2, ill. [Chinese ed., Hefei Shi, 2013, pp. 6–7, no. 2, ill. (color)].
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