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 Paintings of Nicolas Poussin :. | Sacrament of Baptism | the ashes of phocion collected by his widow | The hl, Famile in Agypten | Vue de Grottaferrata avec Venus, Adonis et une divinite fluviale | Paysage avec un homme effraye par un serpent |
Related Artists:
LEFEBVRE, Claude
French painter (b. 1637, Fontainebleau, d. 1675, Paris
DOMENICO VENEZIANO
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1400-1461
John Sherrin
1819-1896 Pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour 12x16in 30.5x40.6cm