Allegory of human life (L'Image de la vie humaine). 1698–1710.

After the original by N. Poussin. 1634-1636.

Engraving, etching. 242 x 295.

The margins are cropped.

Under the image, on the left: N. Poussin pinxit; on the right: B. Picart ex. C.P.R.

The title of the engraving was established on the basis of a comparison with a similar engraving of B. Picart, kept in the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam).

The painting original by N. Poussin "Dance to the Music of Time" is in the Wallace Collection (London).

Inv. G 554

Literature: Le Blanc, t. 3, p. 193, No. 464.

Poussin, Nicolas (1594, near Les Andelys – 1665, Rome) – French painter, a representative of the French Baroque.