Nicolas Poussin art links 

Nicolas Poussin: Et in Arcadia ego, ca.1638-40

Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Art Institute of Chicago

Nicolas Poussin at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
15 works by Poussin

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
11 works online by Poussin

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Le Musée Nicolas Poussin, Les Andelys, France

Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Extreme Unction, pen and ink drawing, 1644

Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro, drawing, ca.1647

Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Domestic scene in a room, pen and ink drawing, ca.1645

Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Apollo in Love with Daphne, pen and ink drawing, ca.1660-64

Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Eliezer and Rebecca, 1648

Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Rape of the Sabine Women, ca.1637-38

Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Summer, or Ruth and Boaz, 1660-64

Louvre Museum, Paris
The Eucharist, pen and ink drawing, 1647

Louvre Museum, Paris
Saint Frances of Rome Announcing the End of the Plague in Rome, ca.1657

Louvre Museum, Paris
Venus at the Fountain, pen and ink drawing, ca.1657-60

Louvre Museum Database, Paris
39 paintings

Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)  
Many works on paper online, but you have to skip forward to about page 27 to see them

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online

National Gallery, London, UK

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Nicolas Poussin

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Venus and Adonis, ca.1626

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  
Landscape with a Woman Washing her Feet (Vertumnus and Pomona)
The Martyrdom of St. Erasmus

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
The Triumph of Bacchus, 1635-36 (Zoom)

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Prado Museum, Madrid
9 works online

Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK

Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Landscape During a Thunderstorm with Pyramus and Thisbe

The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")

Vatican Museums, Vatican City
Martyrdom of St Erasmus

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
The Finding of Moses

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
Venus, Mother of Aeneas, presenting him with Arms forged by Vulcan

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
2 works by or related to the artist

Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
6 paintings by Nicolas Poussin, mixed in with several by followers and copiers

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Haus der Kunst, Munich (mostly in German)  
The Realm of Flora, ca.1630/31

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Venus and Adonis

Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)  
Click on the artist name, then on the artwork title to view the work

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
The Death of Germanicus, 1627

Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France (in French)  
L'Enlèvement des Sabines, drawing

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)  
Vénus montrant ses armes à Enée

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)  
L'Orage

Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)  
L'enlèvement des Sabines, 1637

Musee Magnin, Dijon, France

Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)  

Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France

Museumslandschaft Hessen, Germany (in German)  

National Museums Liverpool, UK
Landscape with the ashes of Phocion, 1648

Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
The Holy family, ca.1632

Palais Fesch Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, France (in French)  

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Nicolas Poussin online

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Rinaldo and Armida, 1625-26

Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Ecstasy of Saint Paul, 1643
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, 1655

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)  

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)  

The British Museum, London, UK

The Wallace Collection, London, UK
A Dance to the Music of Time

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Achilles on Skyros, 1656

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Art Fund for UK Museums
10 works

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)

 

Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
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Christie's Past Sale Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Art Renewal Center

Artchive  
9 works

CGFA  
21 works

Google Art Project   NEW!
Cephalus and Aurora (National Gallery, London)

The Athenaeum  

Web Gallery of Art  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Aiwaz Panopticon

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

Olga's Gallery

State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site

University of Leipzig, Germany  

USC Annenberg School for Communication

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Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

Kilidavid

The Modernist Journals Project
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Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Nicolas Poussin  
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Artcyclopedia
"Poussin and the Heroic Landscape"

Artnet Magazine
Ecstasy of Saint Paul, 1643

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)  

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Portrait of the Artist, 1650

Time Magazine
"A Classicist Who Burned with Inner Fire", 1988 article by Robert Hughes

Time Magazine
"Decorum and Fury", 1994 article by Robert Hughes

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Nicolas Poussin's Landscape Allegories search inside Poussin and the Poetics of Painting search inside Sublime Poussin look inside Nicolas Poussin