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Landscape with Polyphemus
Landscape with Polyphemus is a 1649 painting by Nicolas Poussin, a French painter. The painting refers to a Spanish literary work "La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea". It represents Polyphemus, a cyclops from Greek mythology.
according to their themes. Most notably the story takes place within a pastoral landscape in which the figures are almost incidental. This is particularly so in Nicholas Poussin's 1649 "Landscape with Polyphemus" (see gallery below) in which the lovers play a minor part in the foreground. To the right, Polyphemus merges with a distant mountain top on which he plays his pipes. In an earlier painting by Poussin from 1630 (now housed at the Dublin National Gallery) the couple are among several embracing figures in the foreground,