<P> The Four Seasons ( fr Les Quatre Saisons ) was the last set of four oil paintings completed by the French painter Nicolas Poussin ( 1594 -- 1665 ) . The set was painted in Rome between 1660 and 1664 for the Duc de Richelieu , the nephew of Cardinal Richelieu . Each painting is an elegiac landscape with Old Testament figures conveying the different seasons and times of the day . Executed when the artist was in failing health suffering from a tremor in his hands , the Seasons are a philosophical reflection on order in the natural world . The iconography evokes not only the Christian themes of death and resurrection but also the pagan imagery of classical antiquity : the poetic worlds of Milton 's Paradise Lost and Virgil 's Georgics . The paintings currently hang in a room on their own in the Louvre in Paris . </P>
<P> The Four Seasons ( fr Les Quatre Saisons ) was the last set of four oil paintings completed by the French painter Nicolas Poussin ( 1594 -- 1665 ) . The set was painted in Rome between 1660 and 1664 for the Duc de Richelieu , the nephew of Cardinal Richelieu . Each painting is an elegiac landscape with Old Testament figures conveying the different seasons and times of the day . Executed when the artist was in failing health suffering from a tremor in his hands , the Seasons are a philosophical reflection on order in the natural world . The iconography evokes not only the Christian themes of death and resurrection but also the pagan imagery of classical antiquity : the poetic worlds of Milton 's Paradise Lost and Virgil 's Georgics . The paintings currently hang in a room on their own in the Louvre in Paris . </P>
artist of autumn from the four seasons series
artist of autumn from the four seasons series
Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin