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Nicolass Poussin (1594-1665)

• Was a French painter.
• Poussin was born near Les Andelys in Normandy.
• He worked in the studio of the Flemish painter Ferdinand Elle, and also at the studio of Georges Lallemand. 
• He studied the art of painting nudes at the Academy of Domenichino, and frequented the Academy of Saint Luke.
• Poussin was a friend with the French sculptor François Duquesnoy, the French artist Jacques Stella; Claude Lorraine and Simon Vouet.
• He spent most of his working life in Rome.
• Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of Italian and French collectors.
• He returned to Paris for a brief period to serve as First Painter to the King under Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu, but soon returned to Rome and resumed his more traditional themes.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Nicolass Poussin, The Assumption of the Virgin, c. 1630/1632.
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