Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters

Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin Hymenaios Disguised as a Woman During an Offering to Priapus oil painting on canvas
Hymenaios Disguised as a Woman During an Offering to Priapus
Painting ID::  70549
new23/Nicolas Poussin-384396.jpg



Nicolas Poussin Hymenaios Disguised as a Woman During an Offering to Priapus oil painting on canvas



Visit European Gallery


  Nicolas Poussin
  French 1594-1665 Nicolas Poussin Galleries The finest collection of Poussin's paintings, in addition to his drawings, is located in the Louvre in Paris. Besides the pictures in the National Gallery and at Dulwich, England possesses several of his most considerable works: The Triumph of Pan is at Basildon House, near to Pangbourne, (Berkshire), and his great allegorical painting of the Arts at Knowsley. The later version of Tancred and Erminia is at the Barber Institute in Birmingham. At Rome, in the Colonna and Valentini Palaces, are notable works by him, and one of the private apartments of Prince Doria is decorated by a great series of landscapes in distemper. Throughout his life he stood aloof from the popular movement of his native school. French art in his day was purely decorative, but in Poussin we find a survival of the impulses of the Renaissance coupled with conscious reference to classic work as the standard of excellence. In general we see his paintings at a great disadvantage: for the color, even of the best preserved, has changed in parts, so that the harmony is disturbed; and the noble construction of his designs can be better seen in engravings than in the original. Among the many who have reproduced his works, Audran, Claudine Stella, Picart and Pesne are the most successful.
  Hymenaios Disguised as a Woman During an Offering to Priapus
  Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *167 ?? 376 cm

  Related Paintings::.
  | Portrait of Oswolt Krel | Maja and Celestina | Portrait der Maria Bicknell |


Prev Painting       Next Painting