Nicolas_Poussin_-_Apollo_and_Daphne_-_WGA18345

Apollo Apollo is one of the Twelve Olympians, Olympian deities in Ancient Greek religion, ancient Greek and Ancient Roman religion, Roman religion and Greek mythology, Greek and Roman mythology. Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, mu ...

and

Daphne Daphne (; ; , , ), a figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater. There are several versions of the myth in which she appears, but t ...

'' or ''Apollo in Love with Daphne'' is an oil on canvas painting by

Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythologic ...

, from 1661-1664, produced shortly before the painter's death. It is held in the

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, in

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The painter gave it to Cardinal Camillo Massimi and it later entered

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's collection. In 1832 it was bought from the collection of

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by Charles Paillet, expert commissioner for the French royal collections. His suggestion that the

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purchase it was rejected, and it was instead bought by its current owner in 1869. Marie Pessiot and Pierre Rosenberg, « À propos de la provenance de l'Apollon et Daphné de Poussin », in ''La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France'', 1998, vol. 48, n° 4

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* Oskar Bätschmann, « Apollon et Daphné (1664) de Nicolas Poussin. Le testament du peintre-poète », dans ''Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) : : actes du colloque, musée du Louvre, 19 au 21 octobre 1994'', Paris, La Documentation française, 1996, p. 562. * Françoise Graziani, « Poussin mariniste : la mythologie des images », in O. Bonfait et al., dir, ''Poussin et Rome : actes du colloque de l'Académie de France à Rome 16-18 novembre 1994'', Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 367-385. * Marie Pessiot and Pierre Rosenberg, « À propos de la provenance de l'Apollon et Daphné de Poussin », in ''La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France'', 1998, vol. 48, n° 4 * Clélia Nau, « L’aperception des ressemblances. Métaphores filées dans l’''Apollon amoureux de Daphné'' », in ''Tangence'', 2002, n° 69, p. 27–5
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* Adele Tutter, « Metamorphosis and the aesthetics of loss: I. Mourning Daphne – The Apollo and Daphne paintings of Nicolas Poussin », dans ''The International Journal of Psychoanalysis'', 2001, vol. 92, n° 2, p. 427-44
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* Nicolas Milovanovic, « Chemins de l'invention : la genèse de l'"Apollon amoureux de Daphné" du Louvre », in ''Revue de l'art'', 2017, n° 198, p. 17-28. {{DEFAULTSORT:Apollo and Daphne 1660s paintings Mythological paintings by Nicolas Poussin Paintings of Apollo Paintings in the Louvre by French artists Paintings based on Metamorphoses

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