Victims I—Killed, Assaulted

Abstract

Poussin’s compositions depict victims of tragic deaths or assaults, most of them women. Works showing the dying include the Death of Virginia, Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice, Landscape with Pyramus and Thisbe, and the Realm of Flora. Among women assaulted, Poussin’s works include the Massacre of the Innocents, Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, Queen Zenobia found on the Banks of the River Arax, Apollo and Daphne (two versions), Pan and Syrinx, Rape of the Sabine Women (two versions), and the drawing the Rape of Europa.