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Follow the cupid as he tugs Pan toward the seated woman at right, then find the second cupid behind her and the nymph resting at left.
Soon after he arrived in Rome, short of money, Poussin turned to popular mythologies like this one. A small cupid pulls Pan, the goat-legged god of the woods, toward Venus, a pun on the Latin motto amor vincit omnia, “love conquers all,” since pan means “all” in Greek. The painting belonged to Cassiano dal Pozzo, one of Poussin’s scholarly patrons in Rome.
oil on canvas · Framed: 121 x 152 x 7 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Baroque
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- Museum title
- Nymphs and a Satyr (Amor Vincit Omnia)
- Artist
- Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665)
- Date
- c. 1625–27
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 121 x 152 x 7 cm (47 5/8 x 59 13/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 97 x 127.5 cm (38 3/16 x 50 3/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of J. H. Wade
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.