short biography

Nicolas Poussin (b. 1594, Villers-en-Vexin/Normandy, France; d.1665, Rome) was a Classicist and Baroque painter who lived in Rome. He painted heroic landscapes and mythological scenes and is considered a model of academic art doctrine. Significant works are: "Martyrdom of St. Erasmus", 1629 St. Peter, Rome; "Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice", around 1650; "Four Seasons", 1664.

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Musée Condé / Château de Chantilly Alte Pinakothek, München Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Belvedere, Wien DIA Detroit Institute of Arts DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY London Harvard Art Museums — Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, Arthur M. Sackler, Carpenter ° Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien Louvre Paris Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London MASP - Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Minneapolis Institute of Arts Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Musee Fabre, Montpellier ° Museo del Prado, Madrid Museum Schloss Wilhelmshöhe Kassel Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besancon Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon National Gallery of Art, Washington ° National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Petit Palais, Paris Philadelphia Museum of Art Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow . Queen´s Gallery, London Royal Academy of Arts, London Sammlung Oskar Reinhart Am Römerholz, Winterthur Scottish National Galleries, Edinburgh Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg / RUS Städel Museum, Frankfurt Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
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