Poussin, Nicolas

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Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)

• Was a French painter.
• Nicolas Poussin was a major inspiration for such classically-oriented artists as Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Paul Cézanne.
• Each of Poussin's paintings told a story.
• Aside from his self-portraits, Poussin never painted contemporary subjects.
• In the years following Poussin's death, his style had a strong influence on French art.
• Thanks in particular to Charles Le Brun, who had studied briefly with Poussin in Rome, and who, like Poussin, became a court painter for the King and later the head of the French Academy in Rome.
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Nicolas Poussin, Self-Portrait, 1650

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Nicolas Poussin, Self-Portrait, 1650

Nicolas Poussin, The Vision of Saint Françoise Romaine, around 1657

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Nicolas Poussin, The Vision of Saint Françoise Romaine, around 1657

Nicolas Poussin, The Vision of Saint Françoise Romaine, around 1657

Nicolas Poussin, Moses saved from the waters, around 1638

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Nicolas Poussin, Moses saved from the waters, around 1638

Nicolas Poussin, Moses saved from the waters, around 1638

Nicolas Poussin, Autumn, or The Grapes from Canaan, 1660 - 1664

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Nicolas Poussin, Autumn, or The Grapes from Canaan, 1660 - 1664

Nicolas Poussin, Autumn, or The Grapes from Canaan, 1660 - 1664

Nicolas Poussin, The death of Sapphire, around 1650

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Nicolas Poussin, The death of Sapphire, around 1650

Nicolas Poussin, The Shepherds of Arcadia, about 1638-1640

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Nicolas Poussin, The Shepherds of Arcadia, about 1638-1640

Nicolas Poussin, The Holy Family with St. John and St. Elizabeth in a landscape, around 1650

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Nicolas Poussin, The Rapture of St. Paul, 1649-1650

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Nicolas Poussin, The Rapture of St. Paul, 1649-1650

Nicolas Poussin, Spring, or The Earthly Paradise, 1660 - 1664

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Nicolas Poussin, Spring, or The Earthly Paradise, 1660 - 1664

Nicolas Poussin, Moses Sweetening the Waters of Marah, c. 1627-1628

Original, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland. Visited in 2021.

Nicolas Poussin, Moses Sweetening the Waters of Marah, c. 1627-1628

Nicolas Poussin, The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Elizabeth, 1650

Original, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge. Visited in 2023.

Nicolas Poussin, The Infant Bacchus Entrusted to the Nymphs of Nysa; The Death of Echo and Narcissus, 1657

Original, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge. Visited in 2023.

After Nicolas Poussin, Claudine Bouzonnet Stella, Ego Mater pulchrae dilectionis Eccl. 24., 1668

Original, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Visited in 2017-2024.

After Nicolas Poussin, Claudine Bouzonnet Stella, Ego Mater pulchrae dilectionis Eccl. 24., 1668