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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Landscape with Ruins, c.1634 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$55.92
SKU: 15623-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:72 x 98 cm
Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

The Triumph of Flora, c.1627/28 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$50.95
SKU: 15605-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:165 x 241 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

The Childhood of Bacchus, c.1630 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$60.18
SKU: 15688-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:135 x 168 cm
Musee Conde, Chantilly, France

Summer (Ruth and Boaz), c.1660/64 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$55.22
SKU: 15581-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:118 x 160 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Apollo, Lover of Daphne, c.1664 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$58.67
SKU: 15594-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:155 x 200 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

David with the Head of Goliath, c.1615/20 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$56.19
SKU: 15633-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:132 x 99 cm
Galleria Spada, Rome, Italy

Roman Landscape with Saint Matthew and the Angel, c.1639/40 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$54.95
SKU: 15636-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:99 x 135 cm
Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany

Landscape with the Gathering of the Ashes of Phocion, 1648 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: 15642-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:116 x 176 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

Echo and Narcissus, c.1630 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$55.92
SKU: 15579-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:74 x 100 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Landscape with Saint Jerome, c.1637 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$49.98
SKU: 15618-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:155 x 234 cm
Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus, c.1627 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$56.47
SKU: 15631-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:97.5 x 72.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Entombment of Christ, c.1655/57 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$56.60
SKU: 15635-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:94 x 130 cm
National Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

The Holy Family with St. John, St. Elizabeth and St. Joseph Praying, 1656 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$56.32
SKU: 15663-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:68 x 51 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

The Continence of Scipio, 1640 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$54.81
SKU: 15716-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:114.5 x 163.5 cm
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c.1628/30 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$57.84
SKU: 15720-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:57 x 74 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

Ordination, c.1636/40 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$58.94
SKU: 15577-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:96 x 121.6 cm
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, USA

Nymphs Feeding the Child Jupiter, c.1650 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$57.16
SKU: 15645-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:117.4 x 155.3 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

Joshuas Victory over the Amorites, 1624 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$55.09
SKU: 15572-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:98 x 134 cm
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

The Judgement of Solomon, 1649 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$51.50
SKU: 15584-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:101 x 150 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

The Holy Family (The Roccatagliata Madonna), 1641 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$59.49
SKU: 15607-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:71 x 56.2 cm
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA

Saint Cecile, c.1635 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
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$55.09
SKU: 15625-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:117.7 x 89 cm
Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

Landscape with Hagar and the Angel, n.d. by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$56.19
SKU: 15604-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:100 x 75 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica a Palazzo Corsini, Rome, Italy

Mars and Venus, c.1633/34 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$62.80
SKU: 15689-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:157.5 x 189.8 cm
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

Winter (The Flood), c.1660/64 by Nicolas Poussin | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$55.22
SKU: 15583-PON
Nicolas Poussin
Original Size:118 x 160 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

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