© National Galleries of Scotland
Study for 'A Dance to the Music of Time'
Artist: Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665)
Location: National Gallery of Scotland
Date: circa 1634
Materials: pen, brown ink & brown wash on paper
Dimensions: 14.8 x 19.8cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £50,000 (Total: £160,000)
Vendor: Christopher Loyd Charitable Trust
Review number: 3092 (1985)
Provenance:
Commissioned in 1639 by Cardinal Guilio Rospogliosi; P. Crozat; P.Mariette; Lord Overstone; Christopher Lloyd.
Description:
This is the only surviving drawing by Poussin for the painting, now in the Wallace Collection, London. This Dance of the Human Condition, or of Human Life, is being performed to the lyre of Father Time and two putti are seen playing with an hourglass and blowing bubbles respectively. It depicts a circle of man's fortune with the allegorical figures of Poverty, Industry, Riches and Pleasure forming a circular movement. Above, the Sun is driving his chariot through the zodiac.
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