It was inspired by the famous Raphael's Parnassus in the Stanza della Segnatura, and it is now held in the Prado Museum, in Madrid.

German art historian Erwin Panofsky believed this work to be also a homage to Poussin's Roman benefactor, the poet Giambattista Marino.

In this a mythological scene, set in the Mount Parnassus, the god Apollo appears surrounded by the nine muses, each one of them carrying objects that made them recognizable, and several poets.

Apollo sits on the highest platform, and Homer, or the poet Marino, kneels before him, and is given a laurel wreath, a symbol of wisdom.

It was first mentioned in Spain in a 1746 inventory of the La Granja de San Ildefonso palace.