The painters Nicholas Poussin and Clade Lorrain were French painters that began the inclusion of landscape genre painting in France. Both artists took landscape painting and treated it as historical and moral lessons because of their religious focus, and emphasis on a more fantasy setting. Poussin with Landscape with St Matthew and the Angel demonstrates this idea in its most basic form as Matthew sits with an angel helping him read, in an open-air environment. Elizabeth Cropper states, that Poussin gained influence for his paintings from ancient Rome, and their idea of sculpting the figure, and how they move and function in painting format. Poussin made the figures such a small part of this massive landscape, and what makes it work is that,
