Nicolas Poussins painting. It measures 82.5 × 104 cm
The Dance of Time is a painting by Nicolas Poussin. The work, oil painting on canvas, was painted around 1635 and is now in the Wallace Collection in London.
The allegorical painting, and the theme depicted, a reidance or round dance where time, personalized by "Father Time" music, inspired Anthony Powell into the same twelfth novel, A Dance to the Music of Time. This prose, with more than 2400 pages and 300 main and ancestors, is one of the thickest novels ever written. The work was published between 1951 and 1975.
In addition to the four dancing female figures, Father Tim, an old man with a harp and two children, is pictured. A child is busy bubbling, an allegorical to the temporality of life, and the other child holds an hourglass, even allegorically, for the passing of time. The herme in the foreground is surrounded by flowers and has an old and a young face. The statue or monument pedestal is empty, a to the fame of the fame.
In the background, the Sun God Helios can be seen in his solar car.
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