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Nicolas Poussin

142 works

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Pen and brown wash drawing of soldiers on horseback and grieving figures among classical columns and buildings.

Massacre of the Innocents (recto); Figure Sketches (verso)

n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bacchanal with satyrs, a goat, a fruit basket, and a classical arch.

Bacchanal

ca. 1635-36

Pen and brown ink sketch of mythological figures, sea creatures and a chariot-like shell on aged paper.

Study for the Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite or the Birth of Venus

about 1634

Brown wash drawing of a path winding through tall trees toward a sunlit forest clearing.

A Path Leading into a Forest Clearing

about 1635-1640

Pen and brown ink studies of classical antiquities on paper, including a candelabrum, relief pedestal, draped bust and sandal

Studies of Antiquities (recto); Studies of Antiquities (verso)

about 1632-1635

Red chalk sketch of a crowd of figures on a shore, some with raised arms, under a turbulent sky.

The Crossing of the Red Sea

about 1626-1628

Brown ink and wash drawing of a nude dancing male figure with a lion-head drape, set within an oval frame.

Dancing Votary of Bacchus

about 1635

Brown ink and wash drawing of Apollo and the Muses in a wooded landscape with flying putti and seated figures.

Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus

about 1626-1628

Brown wash drawing of a dying figure on a bed attended by kneeling and standing mourners beneath a draped canopy.

Extreme Unction (recto)

1643-44

Brown ink and wash drawing of a deathbed scene, with a kneeling figure beside a reclining man, and sketched heads on the reve

Extreme Unction (recto); Three Heads and Other Sketches (verso)

1643-44

Red chalk drawing of a muscular man carrying a struggling woman over his shoulder, with swirling drapery.

Two figures from the Rape of the Sabine women

Pen and brown ink sketch of two winged figures in a stone architectural setting, one in flowing drapery.

Clio and Pheme

1650

Red chalk sketch of two nude running figures in dynamic poses, study titled Hippomenes and Atalanta by Nicolas Poussin.

Hippomenes and Atalanta

Brown wash drawing of children playing leapfrog beneath a tree, with seated children watching on a grassy bank.

Children Playing Leapfrog

Pen and brown ink drawing of two draped standing figures in classical robes, sketched on aged paper.

Two Studies of an Ancient Statue (recto); Scylla and a Centaur (verso)

about 1632-1635

Ink and wash drawing of a helmeted soldier supporting a dying, long-haired man who lies sprawled on the ground.

A soldier supports a dying man

1517

Chalk study on tinted paper of a muscular male figure with outstretched arm, plus smaller head and draped figure sketches.

Study after Raphael's "The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple" as well as female figures

1512

Brown wash drawing of a leaning tree and a reclining figure in a wooded landscape under clouds.

Narcissus looks at himself in the spring

Pen and ink drawing of the Holy Family with Saint Elisabeth and children before architecture and a distant landscape.

The Holy Family with Saint Elisabeth and the boy John in a landscape

Pen and wash drawing of a bearded figure on a cloud addressing a kneeling man beside standing women and architecture.

God the Father appears to Noah

Pen and ink drawing of a man on a draped deathbed surrounded by mourners in classical dress, with a shield and spear behind.

Roman matron at the deathbed of her husband

Brown wash drawing of a crowd worshipping a golden calf on a pedestal, with a figure descending from clouds at upper right.

Adoration of the golden calf

Pen and brown ink drawing of mourners carrying a body toward a stone tomb, framed by a double black border.

The Entombment

1656

Brown wash drawing of a runaway horse-drawn chariot on rocky ground, with a classical temple and onlookers in the distance.

The Death of Hippolytus

1600

Brown wash drawing of satyrs, nymphs and dancers celebrating beneath grapevines, with a goat and wine vessels in the foregrou

Triumph of Pan

1635

Pen and brown wash drawing of an elephant in ornate trappings with studies of a pedestal, ram head, and putto head.

Studies after Andrea Mantegna, Giulio Romano, and the Antique

1635/40

Brown ink and wash drawing of two birch trees, the front trunk fallen across the composition with sparse foliage.

Two Silver Birches, the Front One Fallen

1629

Brown ink and wash drawing of women at a well with men pushing forward, classical ruins and a temple in the background.

Moses verteidigt die Töchter des Jethro am Brunnen

1645

Pen and brown wash sketch of figures grieving around a reclining body, with raised arms and draped garments.

The death of Socrates

1640

Back of a drawing with grey wash and graphite sketches of tree branches and foliage, with a handwritten Poussin attribution.

Kniender Johannesknabe mit dem auf dem Kreuz schlafenden Christuskind

1640

Brown ink drawing of a cinerary urn design with a blank cartouche, eagles, roosters and a mask among fruit garlands.

Cinerary Urn, after the Antique

17th-19th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a sorcerer on a winged beast seizing a lady from a rearing horse beside a tree.

The Sorcerer Atlante Abducting Pinabello's Lady (Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, canto II, 38)

ca. 1635-38