The ideal landscape of Nicolas Poussin—defined by trees framing the central scene, subtle diagonals leading to the horizon, ancient buildings occupying the background and an even illumination—inspired painters in the latter half of the seventeenth century. Etienne Allegrain, who did not travel to Rome, likely knew the artist’s pioneering style through his paintings or those of his followers. Here, he embellishes Poussin’s compositional framework with heightened detail, like the weeds sprouting atop the temple and the extremely verdant character of the terrain, to appeal to the eighteenth-century French taste for landscape.