The Rape of the Sabine Women – (Nicolas Poussin) Previous Next


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Topic: Women Women

Date: 1634

Size: 104 x 210 cm

Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States)

Technique: Oil On Canvas

This was painted in Rome, 1634-35. It depicts Romulus at the left giving the signal for the abduction. Nicolas Poussin produced two major versions of this subject, which enabled him to display to the full his unsurpassed antiquarian knowledge, together with his mastery of complicated relations of figures in dramatic encounter. The painting is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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