Poussin: 111 Paintings and Drawings

Winter (The Flood), 1660-1664, oil on canvas

The Holy Family in Egypt, 1655-57, Oil on canvas, 105 x 145 cm

Other significant collections are in the National Gallery in London; the National Gallery of Scotland; the Dulwich Picture Gallery; the Musée Condé, Chantilly; the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; and the Museo del Prado, Madrid.

The finest collection of Poussin's paintings is at the Louvre in Paris.

Poussin believed in reason as the guiding principle of art, yet his figures are never merely cold or lifeless.

The specific models hardly matter. We are not intended to have sympathy with them and instead we are forced by the artist to think on the theme."

Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work. Et in Arcadia ego, a subject he painted twice, exemplifies his cerebral approach.

His goal was clarity of expression achieved by disegno or ‘nobility of design’ in preference to colore or color.

with conscious reference to the art of classical antiquity as the standard of excellence.

a survival of the impulses of the Renaissance is coupled