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Nicolas Poussin

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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

Painting of the Baptism of Christ: a kneeling man pours water on a nude figure in a river, with God and cherubs above in clou

The Baptism of Christ

1600

Painting of an armored rider on a large elephant leading soldiers through a stormy mountain landscape.

Hannibal crossing the Alps on elephants

1625

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