The Funeral of Phocion

{{Short description|Painting by Nicolas Poussin}}

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| artist = Nicolas Poussin

| year = {{start date|1648}}

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| museum = National Museum Cardiff

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The Funeral of Phocion is a 1648 landscape painting, also known as The Burial of Phocion, Landscape with the Funeral of Phocion and Landscape with the Body of Phocion Carried out of Athens, by the French artist Nicolas Poussin. Phocion was an Athenian statesman from the 4th century BC.

Three versions of the painting are known. These are now housed in The Louvre, Paris; National Museum Cardiff and the collections of the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, United States.{{cite web|url=http://philipjohnsonglasshouse.org/gedownload!/NICOLASPOUSSIN.pdf?item_id=864006&version_id=864007|title= The Philip Johnson Glass House announces the conservation of the Nicolas Poussin painting the single most important work in the collection|publisher=The Philip Johnson Glass House |access-date=2008-09-15}}

File:Nicolas Poussin - The Burial of Phocion - PJGH GlassHouse04.jpg|Glass House version

File:Nicolas Poussin - The Burial of Phocion.jpg|Louvre version

In the same year Poussin painted a companion piece to The Funeral of Phocion, Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion.