Victims II—Voiceless, Deceived

Abstract

Further categories of victimhood appear in Poussin’s works, including the voiceless and the deceived, making examples of this broad theme of female victims (including those discussed in Chapter 5) the most common in his oeuvre. In the present chapter, all of the victims are female. The voiceless are found in Echo and Narcissus, Hercules and Deianeira, the Continence of Scipio, and the Testament of Eudamidas. Deceived women appear in the Birth of Bacchus, Achilles Among the Daughters of Lycomedes, and the Judgment of Solomon.