Steve Art Gallery LLC

USA Oil Painting Reproductions Direct

Artist: VARIN, Quentin
Painting: Presentation of Christ in the Temple r
Painting ID: 09435
Buy Oil Painting Only.

GO HOME
Visit European Gallery


BACK
 

VARIN, Quentin Presentation of Christ in the Temple r

VARIN, Quentin:
French Painter, ca.1570-1634 French painter. He was the son of a shoemaker and from 1597 to 1600 was in the papal territory of Avignon, where he worked with a local painter, Pierre Duplan ( fl late 16th century), enrolling also in the local painters' guild. By 1607 he had returned to northern France, and he was married that year at Amiens. In 1612 he was working in the Norman village of Les Andelys, and there he became Nicolas Poussin's first master. For the Gothic church of Notre-Dame, Le Grand Andely, he produced in 1612 a Martyrdom of St Vincent, a Martyrdom of St Clarus and a Regina Coeli (all in situ), the works that provided Poussin with his first contact with contemporary painting. These are the earliest fixed points in Varin's oeuvre, although a ruined Rock of the Philosophers (Rouen, Mus. B.-A.), reminiscent of such late 16th-century French Mannerist painters as Antoine Caron,

BACK

 CLOSE

Hang Your Painting On Wall Now!(Without Frame)   Buy Framed Oil Painting   Email