1640 (ca.), Nicolas Poussin, Camillus and the Schoolmaster of Falerii -- Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena)
From the museum label: The Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid, constructed by order of Queen Mariana's husband, Philip IV, featured an elaborate pictorial program. Among the artists commissioned to decorate the palace was Nicolas Poussin, the French-born, Rome-based painter. Poussin favored an austere, highly ordered and intellectual approach to painting that informed the series of ancient Roman subjects that he painted for Philip. Although not produced as part of the Buen Retiro commission, this work, which depicts an episode from Livy's account of the life of Republican leader and general Furius Camillus, exemplifies the spirit of the Rome series, which articulated the Habsburg monarchy's ideals of just and eminent rule.
1640 (ca.), Nicolas Poussin, Camillus and the Schoolmaster of Falerii -- Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena)
From the museum label: The Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid, constructed by order of Queen Mariana's husband, Philip IV, featured an elaborate pictorial program. Among the artists commissioned to decorate the palace was Nicolas Poussin, the French-born, Rome-based painter. Poussin favored an austere, highly ordered and intellectual approach to painting that informed the series of ancient Roman subjects that he painted for Philip. Although not produced as part of the Buen Retiro commission, this work, which depicts an episode from Livy's account of the life of Republican leader and general Furius Camillus, exemplifies the spirit of the Rome series, which articulated the Habsburg monarchy's ideals of just and eminent rule.