Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 104. (Budapest, 2006)

ANDREA GZÉRE: Nicolas Poussin's Allegory in the Collection of Drawings in Budapest

3 NICOLAS POUSSIN. REALM OF FLORA. DRESDEN. STAATLICH F KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN the composition. Re ahn of Flora is one of the artist's most original creations, and most attractive works of all time. The date of its creation is placed at 1631. In our opinion, the Budapest drawing can be dated to the end of the twenties, ca. 1629. Its structural arrangement and mode of composition can be measured against the Realm of Flora, considered the chef-d-œuvre of his early period, whose chosen structural arrangement represents an even more perfect resolution, a summit. One can observe in both works that contrary to the slightly wider, looser grouping on the left-hand side, the figures of the right-hand side constitute a narrower and denser group, with the principal figure in the central space, placed slightly to the right of centre, while the compositional role of the background motifs is exactly the same: on the left, they completely occupy the height of the picture field, while on the right, they are lower and airier. The Budapest drawing is slightly more additive in its figure placement and grouping, but in the same way,