# Landscape with Saint John on Patmos, in French classicism

Nicolas Poussin painted this in 1640, aged 46. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> Saint John the Evangelist, robed in red and yellow, sits with his book among the ruins of classical buildings on the island of Patmos, where he received the visions of the Book of Revelation, and an ordered landscape stretches away under a calm sky.

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## The work

- Date: 1640
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 100.3 × 136.4 cm (39 1/2 × 53 5/8 in.); Framed: 128.3 × 164.5 × 12.1 cm (50 1/2 × 64 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1930.500
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Nicolas Poussin](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/nicolas-poussin), French, 1594–1665

Poussin left Normandy for Paris and in 1624 settled in Rome, where he spent almost all his career.

6 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Nicolas Poussin](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/nicolas-poussin?hang=750) (6 works)
- [More paintings of the 17th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/painting-17?hang=750) (168 works)
- [17th-century France](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/17-france?hang=750) (30 works)

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