Charles II French Falling somewhere between genre and

Falling somewhere between genre and portraiture

Young David holds the impaled head of the Philistine giant and marches in front of a general riding a white horse

While scholars have believed this proves a particularly long gestation for the painting (from the mid 1620s to the early 1630s) it is more likely that the Triumph of David did not necessarily remain in Poussin's workshop over several years but

There are related drawings at Windsor and in the Galleria dell'Accademia

the pose in this picture seems to derive from Van Dyck's portrait of Charles I in three positions (Royal Collection)

Charles II French Falling somewhere between genre and