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Nicolas Poussin
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Definition:[1594-1665]one of the most illustrious of French painters, born near Andelys, in Normandy; studied first in Paris and then at Rome, where he first attained celebrity, whence he was in 1640 invited to Paris by Louis XIII., who appointed him painter-in-ordinary, with a studio in the Tuileries, returning three years after to Rome, where he died;he is the author of numerous great works, among which may be mentioned the "Shepherds of Arcadia," "The Deluge," "Moses drawn out of the Water," "The Flight into Egypt," &c., all of which display simplicity of taste, nobility of character, and artistic talent of a high order.Rev. James Wood. The Nuttall Encyclopedia (1907)
image 1: Et in Arcadia ego, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=157589image 2: L'Enlèvement des Sabines, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53170413
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The dark wood paneling was bedecked with Old Master paintings, one of which Sophie recognized as a Poussin, her grandfather's second-favorite painter.
Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Code, p226 (2007)
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That matters should continue pleasant Maryann spoke, who, what with her brown complexion, and the working wrapper of rusty linsey, had at present the mellow hue of an old sketch in oils—notably some of Nicholas Poussin's
Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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Swann’s life, from the evening to come, as it would be, after dinner, at her home, — forming, on its celestial passage through the midst of the children and their nursemaids, a little cloud, exquisitely coloured, like the cloud that, curling over one of Poussin’s gardens, reflects minutely, like a cloud in the opera, teeming with chariots and horses, some apparition of the life of the gods;
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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“Would you believe,” he went on, “that the first thing the creatures did was to destroy Lenôtre’s park, which is as bad as slashing a picture by Poussin? For that alone, these Israels ought to be in prison. It is true,”
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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