Paysage avec Junon et Argus

Landscape with Juno and Argus from around 1624 at the Gemaldegalerie Berlin is an early mythological landscape by Poussin. The Ovidian subject allowed him to combine figure painting with landscape in the classical tradition he was developing. Working in Rome from 1624 onwards, Poussin served a cultivated international clientele of French and Italian patrons who prized his learned, disciplined approach to classical antiquity and religious narrative. His correspondence reveals a painter who reg...

The figures are integrated into a landscape setting with Poussin's developing classical approach. The palette and spatial organization show his early engagement with the ideal landscape tradition.