# Holy Family with St John the Baptist [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POUSSIN, Nicolas]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 76 x 64 cm ## Commentary Holy Family with St John the Baptist c. 1627 Oil on canvas, 76 x 64 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This small painting dates from about 1627, several years after Poussin's arrival in Rome in 1624. During the 1620s Poussin was particularly drawn to Venetian painting and the influence of Titian is dominant here. The dramatic alternations of light and shade as well as the hills and sky at the right reflect an awareness of Titian's Bacchanal of the Andrians, and the playful swarms of putti must have been inspired by the remarkable Worship of Venus \(both works are now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid\). Poussin produced several related compositions. ## 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]()