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Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion
Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion is a 1648 painting, also known as Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion (Collected by His Widow) and The Ashes of Phocion Collected by his Widow, by French artist Nicolas Poussin. Phocion was an Athenian statesman from the 4th century BC. 
"It is a picture about exile. Phocion, an Athenian general, was falsely condemned and executed, and his unburied corpse banished, and taken to the outskirts of Megara where it was burnt. At
same year Poussin painted a companion piece to "The Funeral of Phocion", "Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion".
Further reading.
Paul Jamot, "Poussin's Two Pictures of the Story of Phocion" in "The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs" Vol. 40, No. 229 (April 1922), pp. 156–158
External links.
- Article on the Louvre version
- Press release on the Glass House version
- Article on the two companion Phocion paintings
- Artcyclopedia article