Classicism: works and artists

Landscape during a Thunderstorm with Pyramus and Thisbe, Nicolas Poussin

Landscape during a Thunderstorm with Pyramus and Thisbe, 1651.

Paysage orageux avec Pyrame et Thisbé (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Städel Museum, Germany

Summer, 1660–1664.

L'Été (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

The Flight into Egypt, 1658.

La Fuite en Égypte (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France

The lamentation over the dead Christ, Nicolas Poussin

The lamentation over the dead Christ, 1657.

La Lamentation sur le Christ mort (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

National Gallery of Ireland

Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, Nicolas Poussin

Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, 1655.

Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Nativity, c. 1653.

La Nativité (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Bavarian State Painting Collections, Germany

Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice, Nicolas Poussin

Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice, c. 1650.

Paysage avec Orphée et Eurydice (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Elizabeth, Nicolas Poussin

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Elizabeth, 1650.

La Sainte Famille (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Fogg Art Museum, United States

Landscape with Polyphemus, Nicolas Poussin

Landscape with Polyphemus, 1649.

Paysage avec Polyphème (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Hermitage Museum, Russia

Moses Striking the Rock, Nicolas Poussin

Moses Striking the Rock, 1649.

Le Frappement du rocher (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Hermitage Museum, Russia

Apollo in Love with Daphne, Nicolas Poussin

Apollo in Love with Daphne, 1664.

Apollon amoureux de Daphné (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

Eliezer and Rebecca, c. 1660–1665.

Éliézer et Rebecca (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Fitzwilliam Museum, United Kingdom

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, 1658.

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

The Entombment, c. 1656–1657.

The Entombment (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), pen and brown ink

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Holy Family with St Elizabeth and St John the Baptist, Nicolas Poussin

Holy Family with St Elizabeth and St John the Baptist, c. 1655.

Sainte Famille (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Hermitage Museum, Russia

Annunciation, c. 1653.

L'Annonciation (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on wood

Bavarian State Painting Collections, Germany

Self-portrait, 1650.

Portrait de l'artiste (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

The Death of Sapphira, 1650s.

La Mort de Saphire (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

The Judgment of Solomon, Nicolas Poussin

The Judgment of Solomon, 1649.

Le Jugement de Salomon (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

The Ecstasy of St Paul, 1649–1650.

Le Ravissement de saint Paul (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

Winter, 1660–1664.

L'Hiver (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

Autumn, 1660–1664.

L'Automne (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

The Baptism of Christ, c. 1658.

Saint Jean baptisant le Christ (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Philadelphia Museum of Art, United States

Esther before Ahasuerus, Nicolas Poussin

Esther before Ahasuerus, 1655.

Esther devant Assuérus (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Hermitage Museum, Russia

Landscape with Diogenes, Nicolas Poussin

Landscape with Diogenes, 1654–1658.

Diogène jetant son écuelle (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

The Adoration of the Shepherd, Nicolas Poussin

The Adoration of the Shepherd, c. 1653.

L'Adoration des bergers (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Yale University Art Gallery, United States

The Holy Family with Saint John and Saint Elizabeth in a Landscape, Nicolas Poussin

The Holy Family with Saint John and Saint Elizabeth in a Landscape, 1650s.

La Sainte Famille avec saint Jean et sainte Élisabeth dans… (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

The Holy Family with Saint John Saint Elizabeth and Saint Joseph Praying, Nicolas Poussin

The Holy Family with Saint John Saint Elizabeth and Saint Joseph Praying, 1650s.

La Sainte Famille avec saint Jean, sainte Elisabeth et… (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

Tancred and Erminia, 1649.

Tancrède et Herminie (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Hermitage Museum, Russia

The Assumption of the Virgin, Nicolas Poussin

The Assumption of the Virgin, 1649–1650.

L'Assomption de la Vierge (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

Landscape with Hercules and Cacus, Nicolas Poussin

Landscape with Hercules and Cacus, 1660.

Paysage avec Hercule et Cacus (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Russia

Paysage avec Agar et l'ange, Nicolas Poussin

Paysage avec Agar et l'ange, 1660.

Paysage avec Agar et l'ange (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

National Gallery of Ancient Art, Italy

Saint Frances Announcing the End of the Plague in Rome, Nicolas Poussin

Saint Frances Announcing the End of the Plague in Rome, c. 1657.

Sainte Françoise Romaine annonçant à Rome la fin de la peste (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

The Annunciation, c. 1655–1657.

L'Annonciation (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

National Gallery, United Kingdom

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, Nicolas Poussin

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, 1653.

Le Christ et la femme adultère (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

The Holy Family with the Infant St. John the Baptist and St. Elizabeth, Nicolas Poussin

The Holy Family with the Infant St. John the Baptist and St. Elizabeth, 1651.

La sainte famille avec sainte Élisabeth, le petit saint… (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Norton Simon Museum, United States

The Blind of Jericho, 1650.

Les Aveugles de Jéricho (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

Landscape with a Woman Washing her Feet, Nicolas Poussin

Landscape with a Woman Washing her Feet, 1650.

Paysage avec une femme se lavant les pieds (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

National Gallery of Canada

Self-Portrait, 1649.

Autoportrait (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Gemäldegalerie, Germany

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

The Holy Family with Saints Anne, Elizabeth and John the Baptist, 1649.

Sainte Famille aux dix figures (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

National Gallery of Ireland

Spring, 1660–1664.

Le Printemps (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

Landscape with two nymphs, Nicolas Poussin

Landscape with two nymphs, c. 1659.

Paysage aux deux nymphes (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Musée Condé, France

The Infant Bacchus Entrusted to the Nymphs of Nysa The Death of Echo and Narcissus, Nicolas Poussin

The Infant Bacchus Entrusted to the Nymphs of Nysa The Death of Echo and Narcissus, 1657.

La Naissance de Bacchus et la mort de Narcisse (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Fogg Art Museum, United States

Holy Family in Egypt, 1655–1657.

Le Repos pendant la fuite en Égypte (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Hermitage Museum, Russia

Noli me tangere, 1653.

Noli me tangere (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Prado Museum, Spain

The Holy Family, c. 1651.

The Holy Family (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

J. Paul Getty Museum, United States

The Adoration of the Shepherds, Nicolas Poussin

The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1650–1657.

L'Adoration des bergers (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Bavarian State Painting Collections, Germany

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

Landscape with a Calm (Un Tem[p]s calme et serein), 1650–1651.

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

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

J. Paul Getty Museum, United States

Discovery of Achilles on Skyros, Nicolas Poussin

Discovery of Achilles on Skyros, 1649.

Achille parmi les filles du roi Lycomède (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States

Ideal landscape, 1648–1651.

Paysage idéal (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Prado Museum, Spain