"ideal Landscape With Diogenes", 18th Reduction Of The Poussin Painting From 1657, 19th Golden Frame

I present here a painting painted in the 18th century from a reduction of Nicolas Poussin's "Landscape with Diogenes" from 1657 (Louvre: 1.6MX2.21 m). From the end of the 18th century, this remarkably mastered painting is of absolute romanticism in very good condition and presented in a beautiful and sober frame from the beginning of the 19th century; in very good condition with a strong decorative potential because this inventor of a New genre: the ideal landscape where nature and man put back in place in a majestic setting are intimately linked. Poussin immortalizes the renunciation of the cynical philosopher Doigène when he decides to strip himself of his bowl to drink only from his hand, like a young man who sees him do so. Seeing one day a boy who was drinking in his hand, he took the bowl he had in his bag and threw it, saying I am beaten, this child lives more simply than me... According to Pierre Rosenberg, the Work is one of the the most grandiose landscapes of the whole 17th century. Commissioned by the Duke of Richelieu around 1657 according to the expert Denis Mahon, before the series of four seasons. Pierre Rosenberg finally rallied after the opinion of several great specialists to this thesis of this view of Athens. A faithful and very well executed painting, old in very good condition on a robust canvas of the time and a beautiful frame with keys; a marvel for the details, architecture and controlled perspective, luxuriant nature, light, games of the characters who animate it; in short, a very beautiful painting with strong decorative and prestigious power for lovers of beautiful painting who will proudly decorate their living room with a very beautiful piece in good condition