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Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice
ArtistNicolas Poussin
Yearc. 1650
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions124 cm × 200 cm (4 ft 1 in × 6 ft 7 in)
LocationLouvre, Paris

Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice is a 124 × 200 cm (approx 4 × 6.5 feet) oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Nicolas Poussin, painted between 1650 and 1653. It depicts a mythological subject in the classical style and is in the collection of the Louvre in Paris.

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