Reproductions De Peintures automne de Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665, France) | WahooArt.com

Oeuvres , Oeuvres

Oeuvres , Oeuvres

Nicolas Poussin - huile
Autumn is one of the set of four oil paintings completed by the French painter Nicolas Poussin, regarding Seasons. Poussin finished this painting, around 1660 - 1664. The rougher texture and trembling brushwork evident in Autumn or The Spies with the Grapes of the Promised Land suggest that this might have been the last painting of the set to be completed. The lush vegetation of Spring is replaced by stoney ground with small clumps of grass. Only the apple tree in the centre bears fruit
the leaves are already beginning to fall from the two small trees on the left. Long shadows are cast by the evening sun, whose fading light catches a town nestling under a mountain in the distance and buildings perched on a rocky ledge to the right. The observer's eye is gently directed towards the central figures of the two Israelite spies by the lines of clouds and cliffs beneath them. As related in the Book of Numbers, they need a pole to carry the enormous grapes
one of the spies holds a branch of oranges as large as melons. In the middle ground are a fisherman and a woman with a basket of fruit on her head. The work is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.