Portrait of Nicolas Poussin

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1594-1665

French Baroque Painter

Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) can be defined as the most typical representative of French classicism of the 17th century. His work is sometimes complex, invariably bearing the imprint of erudition and enlightenment. The Louvre has thirty-eight paintings (or a quarter of his works known today) that allow one to trace the various stages of his career. Poussin was from Normandy, worked in Paris, and only in 1624 finally realized his cherished dream by settling in Rome. His entire career as a painter unfolded there, with only a two-year interruption (1640-1642), when Louis XIII summoned him to himself in Paris.

In Italy, as soon as he arrived, he was assisted and patronized by educated and learned connoisseurs, who became his best clients. Among them was the collector Cassiano dal Pozzo, for whom he created the "Seven Sacraments" series. Their interest in antiquity led him to devote himself to cavallet painting. The artist draws his subjects from ancient history and mythology, selects noble or dramatic subjects and builds perfectly balanced, increasingly static compositions. These are the very works that brought him European fame. Simple allegories, such as "The Inspiration of the Poet" (1630), established his reputation as a 'philosopher painter'; others, such as "The Arcadian Shepherds" (1638-1640), express the fragility of human happiness. Between 1644 and 1648 Poussin painted for the Parisian collector Chantelou a new series, "The Seven Sacraments", whose monumental mise-en-scenes and dignified figures reveal his artistic and intellectual ideal. During the last 20 years of his life, he devoted particular attention to landscape. In "Landscape with Diogenes", sumptuous nature bestows bliss on man. The Seasons cycle is a synthesis between the beauty of nature and biblical narrative, with each of the seasons symbolizing a stage in man's destiny.

140 Nicolas Poussin Artworks

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The Finding of Moses, 1638 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$54.90
SKU: 15568-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:93 x 121 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

The Holy Family, c.1651 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$57.53
SKU: 15649-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:100.6 x 132.4 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

The Finding of Moses, 1651 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$50.19
SKU: 15675-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:115.7 x 175.3 cm
National Gallery, London, UK

The Triumph of Bacchus, c.1635/36 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$64.03
SKU: 15714-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:128 x 151 cm
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA

The Adoration of the Golden Calf, c.1633/34 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$54.22
SKU: 15678-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:153.4 x 211.8 cm
National Gallery, London, UK

Nymph with Satyrs, c.1627 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$57.12
SKU: 15679-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:66.4 x 50.3 cm
National Gallery, London, UK

Midas and Bacchus, c.1620/24 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$56.43
SKU: 15639-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:98.5 x 153 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Truth Stolen Away by Time Beyond the Reach of ..., 1641 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$76.06
SKU: 15641-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:unknown
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Landscape with Travellers Resting, c.1638/39 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$61.69
SKU: 15680-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:63 x 77.8 cm
National Gallery, London, UK

Camille Delivers the Schoolmaster of Falerii to ..., 1637 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$73.43
SKU: 15658-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:252 x 265 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

The Blind of Jericho (Christ Healing the Blind), 1650 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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SKU: 15598-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:119 x 176 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, 1655 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$57.12
SKU: 15627-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:125.7 x 165 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Saint John Baptizing in the River Jordan, c.1630 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$59.61
SKU: 15648-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:96 x 121.4 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Ecstasy of Saint Paul, 1643 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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SKU: 15654-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:41.6 x 30.2 cm
John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida, USA

Landscape with a Man washing his Feet at a Fountain, c.1648 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$56.71
SKU: 15681-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:74 x 100.3 cm
National Gallery, London, UK

The Plague of Ashdod (The Philistines Struck by ..., c.1630/31 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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SKU: 15596-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:148 x 198 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

The Storm, 1651 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$56.56
SKU: 15614-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:99 x 132 cm
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France

The Holy Family with Saint John and Saint ..., c.1650 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$58.37
SKU: 15665-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:94 x 122 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Spring (The Garden of Eden), c.1660/64 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$55.74
SKU: 15580-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:118 x 160 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Self Portrait, 1650 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$57.53
SKU: 15599-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:98 x 74 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Parnassus, c.1630/31 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$56.29
SKU: 15624-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:145 x 197 cm
Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

The Infant Bacchus Entrusted to the Nymphs of Nysa, 1657 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$50.76
SKU: 15686-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:122.6 x 180.5 cm
Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA

Venus Weeping over Adonis, c.1625 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$50.19
SKU: 15595-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:57 x 128 cm
Musee des Beaux Arts, Caen, France

Dance to the Music of Time, c.1634/36 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$59.06
SKU: 3273-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:82.5 x 104 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK

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