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The Funeral of Phocion is a 1648 landscape painting, also known as The Burial of Phocion, Landscape with the Funeral of Phocion and Landscape with the Body of Phocion Carried out of Athens, by the French artist Nicolas Poussin. Phocion was an Athenian statesman from the 4th century BC.
Three versions of the painting are known.  These are now housed in The Louvre, Paris; National Museum Cardiff and the collections of the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, United States.			
			
		
		
			
			
		
In the same year Poussin painted a companion piece to The Funeral of Phocion, Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion.
landscape Nicolas Poussin Athenian Phocion The Louvre United States National Museum Cardiff New Canaan, Connecticut Glass House Louvre Athens Paris Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion