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The Summer Ruth and Boaz Painting ID:: 2113
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Nicolas Poussin The Summer Ruth and Boaz 1660-64 Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun Painting ID:: 2116
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Nicolas Poussin Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun 1658 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery Detail Painting ID:: 2118
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Nicolas Poussin Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery Detail 1653 Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Jesus Healing the Blind of Jericho Painting ID:: 2120
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Nicolas Poussin Jesus Healing the Blind of Jericho Musee du Louvre, Paris
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The Rape of the Sabine Women Painting ID:: 2128
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Nicolas Poussin The Rape of the Sabine Women Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Nicolas Poussin
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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. |
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