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Nicolas Poussin The Summer Ruth and Boaz 1660-64 Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Nicolas Poussin Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun 1658 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Nicolas Poussin Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery Detail 1653 Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Nicolas Poussin Jesus Healing the Blind of Jericho Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Nicolas Poussin The Rape of the Sabine Women Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Nicolas Poussin Et in Arcadia Ego 1638-40 Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Nicolas Poussin The Companions of Rinaldo Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Nicolas Poussin Tancred and Erminia 1630's The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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Nicolas Poussin The Conquest of Jerusalem Art History Museum, Vienna
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Nicolas Poussin St.Cecelia
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Nicolas Poussin The Adoration of the Golden Calf 1634 National Gallery, London
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Nicolas Poussin Apollo and Daphne 1625 Pinakothek, Munich
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Nicolas Poussin Midas and Bacchus 1625 Pinakothek, Munich
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Nicolas Poussin The Inspiration of the Poet 1636-38 Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Nicolas Poussin Mars and Venus 1627-29 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Nicolas Poussin Moses Bringing Forth Water from the Rock 1649 The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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Nicolas Poussin Self Portrait 02 1650 Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Nicolas Poussin The Funeral of Phocion 1648 National Museum of Wales
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Nicolas Poussin Holy Family on the Steps 1666-68 The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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Nicolas Poussin The Death of Germanicus 1627 Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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Nicolas Poussin
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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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