# Landscape with Orpheus and Euridice \(detail\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [POUSSIN, Nicolas](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/poussin-nicolas-rb621720fb63e46>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas

## Commentary

The painting provides impressive evidence for Poussin&#39;s view that a familiar subject in painting only becomes new and unique if the artist treats it in an original manner. Thus the composition continues to deploy elements traditionally found in Orpheus representations, but combines and reinterprets them in a surprising fashion.

## Related artworks

- [A Bacchic Scene](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/poussin-nicolas-rb621720fb63e46/a-bacchic-scene-r982caaa0dfd6c7>)
- [A Dance to the Music of Time](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/poussin-nicolas-rb621720fb63e46/a-dance-to-the-music-of-time-r5cbef137ff2af5>)
- [A Roman Road](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/poussin-nicolas-rb621720fb63e46/a-roman-road-ra15884781d25c1>)
- [A Sacrifice](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/poussin-nicolas-rb621720fb63e46/a-sacrifice-r014eded1739d9d>)
- [Acis and Galatea](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/poussin-nicolas-rb621720fb63e46/acis-and-galatea-r624ead62c54c6a>)
- [Adoration of the Magi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/poussin-nicolas-rb621720fb63e46/adoration-of-the-magi-r7c91acf57f7307>)
- [Annunciation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/poussin-nicolas-rb621720fb63e46/annunciation-re23e71d5f12f48>)
- [Apollo and Daphne](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/poussin-nicolas-rb621720fb63e46/apollo-and-daphne-r2ea3a1c5ca3bac>)
- [Apollo and Daphne](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/poussin-nicolas-rb621720fb63e46/apollo-and-daphne-rb137db29badcc0>)
- [Apollo and the Muses \(Parnassus\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/poussin-nicolas-rb621720fb63e46/apollo-and-the-muses-parnassus-rc5eda900ea5232>)
- [Armida Carrying off Rinaldo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/poussin-nicolas-rb621720fb63e46/armida-carrying-off-rinaldo-r2bc1beef029412>)
- [Assumption of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/poussin-nicolas-rb621720fb63e46/assumption-of-the-virgin-r4c29d9530d8dea>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)