# The Inspiration of the Lyric Poet [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POUSSIN, Nicolas]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 94 x 70 cm ## Commentary The Inspiration of the Lyric Poet c. 1627 Oil on canvas, 94 x 70 cm Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover In The Inspiration of the Lyric Poet, completed around 1627, the poet experiences the dawning light of inspiration with the help of a draught from the sacred spring of Castalia, offered to him by Apollo, the divine patron of the arts, accompanied by Euterpe, the Muse of lyric poetry. Putti fly down from above to crown the poet, thus honoured, with flowers, branches and wreaths of laurel. ## Related artworks - [A Bacchic Scene]() - [A Dance to the Music of Time]() - [A Roman Road]() - [A Sacrifice]() - [Acis and Galatea]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Annunciation]() - [Apollo and Daphne]() - [Apollo and Daphne]() - [Apollo and the Muses \(Parnassus\)]() - [Armida Carrying off Rinaldo]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()