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Date : 1624
Sizes : 73 cm x 98 cm
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Purchase (1871)
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French Painting
Painting
Area related
Rome (Italy)
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Bacchus offered Midas a gift, and the king asked that everything he touched be turned to gold. Soon realizing that he could neither eat nor drink, he asked to be relieved of the gift, and Bacchus sent him to wash it away in the Pactolus River. Partly submerged in water, Midas is dominated here by the personification of a river god. The picture was painted not long after Poussin arrived in Rome in 1624.
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