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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.
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Painting ID:: 21450
Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite (mk08)
1634
Oil on canvas,
114.5x146.6cm
Philadelphia,Philadelphia
Museum of Art
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Painting ID:: 21575
Landscape with Three Men (mk08)
c.1645-1650
Oil on canvas,100x130cm
Madrid,Museo del Prado
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Painting ID:: 21576
Midas and Bacchus (mk08)
c.1630
Oil on canvas,
98x153cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemalde-sammlungen,Alte Pinakothek
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Painting ID:: 21577
E-cho and Narcissus (mk08)
c.1627/28
Oil on canvas,
74x100cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
Echo and Narcissus (mk08)
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Painting ID:: 21578
Moses Trampling on the Pharaoh's Crown (mk08)
1645
Oil on canvas
99x142.2cm
Woburn Abbey,Duke of Bedford collection
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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.
. Related Artists to Nicolas Poussin: | Bartolomeo Manfredi | Simone Peterzano | Nicolaes maes | George Henry Harlow | Thomas Pakenham |
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