Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion Collected by his Widow, Pietro Parboni, No later than 1841, Graphic Art, Copper Engraving, The widow of General Phocion (402-318 BC) is seen In the foreground of this picture, kneeling to collect her husband’s ashes. She is accompanied by a nervous servant girl who is turning round to look at a young man watching the two women from where he stands beneath the trees on the right. Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) painted the rural scene replicated in the print

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Model Released: No

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