Apollo and Daphne or Apollo in Love with Daphne is a 1661-1664 oil on canvas painting by Nicolas Poussin, produced just before the painter's death and now in the Louvre Museum.

History

The painter gave it to Cardinal Camillo Massimi[1] and it later entered Guillaume Guillon Lethière's collection. In 1832 it was bought from the collection of Sébastien Érard by Charles Paillet, expert commissioner for the French royal collections. His suggestion that the Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen bought it was rejected and it was instead bought by its current owner in 1869.[2]

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References

  1. ^ (in French) Clélia Nau, « L’aperception des ressemblances. Métaphores filées dans l’Apollon amoureux de Daphné », Tangence, no 69, 2002, p. 27–54 (ISSN 0226-9554)
  2. ^ (in French) Marie Pessiot and Pierre Rosenberg, « À propos de la provenance de l'Apollon et Daphné de Poussin », in La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France, 1998, vol. 48, n° 4

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