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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:: 21579
St Cecilia (mk08)
c.1627/28
Oil on canvas,
118x88cm
Madrid,Museo del Prado
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Painting ID:: 21801
Hut and Well on Rugen (mk10)
1802,Watercolour
13.8 x 21.5 cm
Hamburg,Kunsthalle
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Painting ID:: 21826
Landscape with Saint Matthew and the Angel (mk10)
Around 1644,Oil on canvas,99 x 135 cm
Berlin,Dahlem Museum
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Painting ID:: 21827
detail Landscape with Saint Matthew and the Angel (mk10)
Around 1644,Oil on canvas,99 x 135 cm
Berlin,Dahlem Museum
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Painting ID:: 23454
The Arcadian Shepherds (nn03)
1638-9 Oil on canvas
85 x 121 cm
33 1/2 x 47 1/2 in
Musee de Louvre Paris
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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: | Douglas Morison | FLINCK, Govert Teunisz. | Jan van der Straet | Leopold Kowalsky | Theodor Horschelt |
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