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Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion is a 1648 painting also known as Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion (Collected by His Widow) and The Ashes of Phocion Collected by his Widow by French artist Nicolas Poussin. Phocion was an Athenian statesman from the 4th century BC. It is a picture about exile. Phocion an Athenian general was falsely condemned and executed and his unburied corpse banished and taken to the outskirts of Megara where it was burnt.
