# St John the Baptist Baptizes the People [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POUSSIN, Nicolas]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 94 x 120 cm ## Commentary St John the Baptist Baptizes the People c. 1635 Oil on canvas, 94 x 120 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Poussin here arranges the figures into a frieze-like composition, as if on an antique relief. The groups seen in profile on the left and right lend particular emphasis to the figures standing in the centre and viewed from the front. For the pose of the man kneeling in front of St John the Baptist, the painter looks back to a sarcophagus relief. This subject is rather rare in painting. ## 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]()