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Nicolas Poussin

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Painting of a satyr, nymphs and winged putti in a wooded landscape under a cloudy sky.

Nymphs and a Satyr (Amor Vincit Omnia)

c. 1625-27

Seated man in yellow robe writing among ancient ruins, with an eagle, obelisk, and arch in a wooded landscape.

Landscape with Saint John on Patmos

1640

Painting of the Holy Family in a boat on a river with angels carrying a cross through clouds above.

The Return of the Holy Family to Nazareth

c. 1627

Painting of a blind giant with a bow carrying a guide on his shoulders through a forest, toward clouds and a distant sea.

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

1658

Painting of soldiers seizing women amid a panicked crowd in a classical city square under a stormy sky.

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

probably 1633-34

Painting of the Holy Family seated on classical steps with children, an elderly woman, a man, an orange tree and urns.

The Holy Family on the Steps

1648

Two armored warriors fight a serpent and monster by a rocky cliff, with a woman watching from the left under a cloudy sky.

The Companions of Rinaldo

ca. 1633

Painting of nude figures in a wooded riverside setting, one reclining with a leafy wreath and another bending to wash in a st

Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus

ca. 1627

Painting of two robed saints on temple steps pointing skyward while a lame man reaches toward them, with a crowd and classica

Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man

1655

Classical landscape with a lyre player in red robes, a gesturing standing man, seated figures, and a distant hilltop city.

Orpheus and Eurydice

Oil painting of the Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist, with putti picking fruit from a tree in a landscape.

The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist

ca. 1627

Painting of a kneeling figure reaching toward an angel in clouds, with sleeping figures in the dark foreground below.

The Agony in the Garden

1626-27

Painting of a stormy landscape with lightning, a lake, classical buildings, herders, and a grieving figure beside a body.

Stormy landscape with Pyramus and Thisbe

1651

Painting of a river baptism with robed and nude figures on a riverbank under trees, with hills and clouds behind.

Saint John Baptizing in the River Jordan

about 1635-1640

Pastoral landscape with shepherd and goats by a lake, a castle on a hill, grazing flocks, and mountains under clouds.

Landscape with a Calm (Un Tem[p]s calme et serein)

1650-1651

Classical painting of a Roman city with temples, a crowd of mourners and soldiers, and ships in the harbor beyond.

Agrippina with the ashes of Germanicus

Painting of winged putti climbing a tree and playing among flower wreaths in a landscape at dusk.

Children and putti playing

1630

Painting of Mars and Venus seated in a forest with cupids, armor, arrows and reclining satyrs nearby.

Mars and Venus

1630

Painting of a chaotic battle with armored soldiers and horses, a red banner, and figures praying on a hill above.

The Victory of Joshua over the Amalekites

1624

Painting of women with water jugs at a well, a man in orange gesturing to a woman in blue, classical buildings behind.

Eliezer and Rebecca

1648

Painting of the Holy Family with saints and playful cherubs holding flowers before a classical town landscape.

The Holy Family with Saints Anne, Elizabeth and John the Baptist

1649

Painting of a wooded landscape with rocky cliffs, a giant seated on a rock, reclining figures and grazing cattle.

Landscape with Polyphemus

1649

Painting of a seated commander, a veiled woman, and soldiers before a burning city with a laurel wreath held aloft.

The continence of Scipio

1640

Painting of a woman collapsing in a city street while a crowd reacts and robed men on a step gesture toward her.

La Mort de Saphire

1652

Painting of cupids leading a reclining armored hero through a wooded landscape beside a bearded river god and a classical col

The Abduction of the Euthanized Rinaldo

1637

Painting of a classical hunting party with rearing white horses, hounds, and statues in a wooded landscape.

La Chasse de Méléagre et Atalante ou Le Départ pour la chasse

1634

Painting of a bacchanal in a wooded landscape: a woman in blue plays a lute, satyrs and putti gather, and a man holds grapes.

Bacchanal with a Lute Player

1620

Painting of a seated saint with an angel beside a river, ruined columns in the foreground and a hilltop town in the distance.

Landscape with St Matthew and the Angel

1640

Painting of a seated nude nymph, a satyr and a putto drinking from vessels beside a tree in a forest.

Scène bachique ou Nymphe et satyre buvant

1626

Crowded Roman square with soldiers seizing women amid white horses and classical buildings, a commander in red cloak watching

The abduction of the Sabines

1637

Mythological painting of a golden zodiac arch with seated figure, winged youths, putti, and reclining men among clouds.

Helios and Phaeton with Saturn and the Four Seasons

1630

Shepherds and a woman in classical dress gather at a stone tomb in a wooded landscape with distant mountains.

Et in Arcadia ego

1638

Painting of women on a riverbank rescuing an infant from the water, with an arched bridge and pyramid in the background.

Moses Saved from the River

1638

Painting of Christ among a crowd of robed men beside a kneeling woman before classical stone buildings under blue sky.

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

1653

Painting of a woman playing a harpsichord beside cherubs holding sheet music, with a red curtain and classical column.

Saint Cecilia

1635

Painting of a winged woman holding a laurel wreath beside a young warrior with a sword, with cherubs and armor nearby.

The Triumph of David

1630

Classical landscape with figures by a river, a lyre player, a fortified city with a bridge, and dark clouds above.

Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice

1650

Painting of a seated king on a throne gesturing as a soldier raises a sword over a baby while two women plead.

The Judgment of Solomon

1649

Painting of a Bacchic revel with dancing figures, satyrs, cherubs and a gilded chariot in a wooded landscape.

Bacchanale ou Bacchus et Ariane

1624

Painting of a bearded man in red robes lifted skyward by two winged angels above a stone ledge with a sword and book.

The Ecstasy of St Paul

1649

Painting of Roman soldiers attacking a city, with a mounted commander on a white horse and a burning temple behind.

The Conquest of Jerusalem by Emperor Titus

1638

Painting of a child reaching for a crown in a draped chamber, with a reclining bearded man and gesturing courtiers in colourf

Moïse enfant foulant aux pieds la couronne de Pharaon

1625

Painting of a crowded classical city with columns, a golden idol, and figures in distress tending to fallen plague victims.

The Plague at Ashdod

1630

Painting of Apollo and the Muses with laurel-crowned poets in a wooded glade, cherubs flying above and a reclining nude by a

Parnassus

1630

Painting of the Virgin and Christ Child appearing in clouds to kneeling men gazing upward in a dark landscape.

The Apparition of the Virgin to Saint James the Great

1629

Painting of a soldier raising a sword over a kneeling mother beside an infant, with a grieving woman in blue behind them.

Massacre of the Innocents

1625

Classical landscape with two reclining nymphs in the foreground, a river, tall trees, and a castle on distant hills.

Landscape with two nymphs and a serpent

1659

Classical landscape painting with tall trees, a columned temple on a rise, rocky hill, and small figures on a winding road.

Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion

1648

Painting of a bending man lifting a stone among classical ruins while two women in robes look on.

Theseus Finds His Father's Sword

1638

Painting of dancing figures in a landscape, an old winged man with an hourglass and lyre, and a sun chariot in the clouds abo

A Dance to the Music of Time

1634

Painting of a reclining youth beside a winged cupid with a torch, and a woman leaning on a rock under trees.

Echo and Narcissus

1629

Painting of a seated woman on a chariot surrounded by dancing figures, cherubs with garlands, and a wooded landscape under cl

The Triumph of Flora

1627

Circular painting of winged Time lifting nude Truth skyward while Envy and Discord are shown below among rocks and clouds.

Time defending Truth against the attacks of Envy and Discord

1641

Painting of Israelites gathering manna in a rocky desert, with robed figures reaching for food under a stormy sky.

The Israelites gathering Manna in the Desert

1637

Painting of a nursing infant tended by women and a kneeling man beside a goat, with a deer and tree in a landscape.

Jupiter als Kind von der Ziege Amalthea genährt

Painting of Moses raising his staff before a rock as a crowd of people in colourful robes gathers to drink.

Moses Striking the Rock

1649

Painting of Venus and a faun with a goat among playing putti beneath a large tree in a wooded landscape.

Venus, Faun and Putti

1631

Painting of a kneeling woman reaching toward a man holding a shovel beside a rock tomb and trees.

Noli me tangere

1653

Oil painting of a dying man on a bed as a scribe writes beside him while mourners in a dim room look on.

The Testament of Eudamidas

1644-1648

Shepherds and a woman in white gather around a tomb inscribed Et in Arcadia ego beneath trees, with a laurel-wreathed figure

Et in Arcadia ego

1629

The Healing of the Two Blind Men at Jericho

The Healing of the Two Blind Men at Jericho

1600-1699

Nude revelers and satyrs in a wooded landscape around Bacchus, with a kneeling man in orange and blue and a goat.

Midas and Bacchus

1624

Painting of dancing revelers, satyrs and women in a forest beside a wreathed herm of Pan, with putti in the foreground.

A Bacchanalian Revel before a Term

1632

Oval painting of Moses reacting to an angel beside a burning bush, with a serpent on rocks and a stormy sky.

Moses and the Burning Bush

1641

Painting of the Holy Family with young John the Baptist beside a fluted column, a sheep, and a reading man under trees.

Die Heilige Familie mit dem Johannesknaben

1628

Painting of the Baptism of Christ: a crowd of figures at a river, a dove above, trees and hills in the background.

The Baptism of Christ

1641/1642

Painting of the Virgin Mary rising on clouds in a blue mantle, surrounded by cherubs, above a draped stone altar and columns.

The Assumption of the Virgin

c. 1630/1632

Painting of soldiers with swords attacking mothers and infants in a classical colonnade, with dead children on the floor.

Le Massacre des Innocents

1627

Mythological painting of Apollo among clouds with winged figures, cherubs, and reclining men beside a golden arch.

Apollon accordant son char à Phaéton, d'après Poussin

1699

Painting of figures being baptized in a river beneath trees, with rolling hills and a cloudy sky behind them.

Saint John Baptizing in the River Jordan

1630

Circular painting of the Virgin and Child with the young Saint John the Baptist before classical columns and a landscape.

POUSSIN Nicolas (entourage de) - La Vierge à l'Enfant avec saint Jean-Baptiste, MNR00037

Painting of two winged cupids riding goats through a wooded landscape beside a stream, with rocks and trees behind.

Amours chevauchant des boucs

1630

Painting of a goddess handing a warrior ornate armour in a landscape, with cupids in clouds and a reclining river figure.

Venus, Mother of Aeneas, presenting him with Arms forged by Vulcan

1633

Painting of a pastoral landscape with seated figures in the foreground, shepherds, grazing sheep, a bridge and a large tree.

Midas, Pan et bergers

1625

Crowded classical scene of trumpeters, a man holding a severed head aloft, and celebrating figures before a colonnade.

The Triumph of David

1628

Poussin painting of a seated commander in red cloak, schoolboys and armored soldiers before a city wall.

'Camillus and the Schoolmaster of Falerii'

1634

Painting of shepherds adoring the infant Christ in a stable with cherubs and flowers above, by Nicolas Poussin, 1633.

L'Adoration des bergers

1633

Classical landscape with tall trees, a pond with a swan, a tower, and resting figures in orange and blue robes.

Paysage avec un voyageur au repos

1648

Saint in orange robe and blue dress rising on clouds above a hilltop town with towers and wooded landscape.

The Translation of Saint Rita of Cascia

1630

Painting of nymphs, a satyr and goats nurturing an infant in a wooded hillside landscape with a stream.

The Nurture of Jupiter

1630

Painting of nude Venus and Mercury in a wooded landscape with playing cupids, a lute and sheet music in the foreground.

Venus and Mercury

1627

Painting of a woman gazing at a sleeping armored warrior as a winged Cupid with a sword stands beside her in a wooded landsca

Rinaldo and Armida

1630

Painting of the Holy Family with a donkey by a river, angels carrying a cross overhead, and classical ruins in the background

The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt

1628

Painting of Christ in a red cloak handing keys to a kneeling Saint Peter among apostles on a wooded path.

The Sacrament of Ordination (Christ presenting the Keys to Saint Peter)

1636

Painting of revelers dancing in a wooded glade with satyrs, maenads, a goat and scattered masks, by Nicolas Poussin.

The Triumph of Pan

1636

Painting of women gathered on a riverbank around an infant, with classical buildings, palms and an obelisk behind them.

The Finding of Moses

1651

Painting of Venus with nude attendants, a warrior in armor, and cupids in a wooded landscape with a shield and weapons.

Venus and Mars

1633

Painting of Bacchus on a gilded chariot amid revelers, centaurs and cherubs, with a sun chariot in the sky above.

The Triumph of Bacchus

1635

Painting of soldiers sacking a burning colonnaded temple, with horsemen, fallen figures, banners and a menorah in view.

The Destruction and Sack of the Temple of Jerusalem

1625

Painting of a crowned man holding a branch beside a reclining nymph and a piper in a wooded classical landscape.

Midas transformant en or le rameau d'une yeuse, dit autrefois Numa Pompilius et la nymphe Égérie

1631

Painting of Venus reclining with Adonis, cupids, swans, a dog and a gilded chariot under a stormy sky.

Venus and Adonis

1628

Storm landscape with lightning over a lake and buildings, a figure in blue fleeing a fallen body in the foreground.

Landscape during a Thunderstorm with Pyramus and Thisbe

1651

Painting of a nude youth with a vine-leaf wreath and staff, flanked by putti, a seated woman, and a wooded landscape.

Bacchus-Apollo

1620

Painting of nude Venus rising from the sea amid nymphs, tritons, horses, and flying cherubs under a stormy sky.

The Birth of Venus

1635

Painting of Cephalus and Aurora with a winged white horse, a sleeping man, a cupid, and a dawn landscape.

Cephalus and Aurora

1630

Painting of the infant Bacchus with nymphs and satyrs in a wooded landscape, with grapevines and gilded dishes.

L’enfance de Bacchus

1630