River landscape with boar hunt

Nicolas Poussin painted Echo and Narcissus around 1629–30, one of his earliest Ovidian mythologies painted in Rome. The subject — the nymph Echo, condemned to repeat only the last words spoken to her, wasting away for love of the self-absorbed Narcissus — was well suited to Poussin's emerging interest in the emotional content of classical myth. Narcissus is shown gazing at his own reflection while Echo reclines dying nearby, and the landscape setting becomes a participant in the tragedy — shadowed, autumnal, charged with melancholy. The composition shows Poussin absorbing the lessons of Titian's poetic mythologies while developing the classical figure organization that would characterize his mature work. The painting is in the Louvre.

The wide panoramic format allows de Momper to develop a deep landscape recession, with the hunting action in the foreground giving way to a winding river valley rendered in progressively cooler tones.