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| Nicolas Poussin art links |
There is no point in pretending that Poussin is an easy painter for today's viewers to get at. He has the disadvantage, for a coarsely expressionist culture, of being incapable of vulgarity or cheap sentiment.
| | - Robert Hughes, in Time Magazine (see below) |
Nicolas Poussin Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Nicolas Poussin at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
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
See the "Spain, France and England" section
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Le Musée Nicolas Poussin, Les Andelys, France
Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Apollo in Love with Daphne, ca.1660-64
Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Domestic scene in a room, ca.1645
Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Eliezer and Rebecca, 1648
Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Eucharist, 1647
Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Extreme Unction
Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro, ca.1647
Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Rape of the Sabine Women, ca.1637-38
Louvre Museum, Paris
Saint Frances of Rome Announcing the End of the Plague in Rome
Louvre Museum, Paris
Summer, or Ruth and Boaz, 1660-64
Louvre Museum, Paris
Venus at the Fountain, 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 NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
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 Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Landscape During a Thunderstorm with Pyramus and Thisbe
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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
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 NEW!
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
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 NEW!
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
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
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The British Museum, London, UK
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Achilles on Skyros, 1656
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Quite a few works online
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project
Cephalus and Aurora (National Gallery, London)
The Art Renewal Center
The Artchive
9 works
The Athenaeum 
Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Aiwaz Panopticon
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
CGFA
21 works
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
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
University of Leipzig, Germany
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Kilidavid
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Nicolas Poussin 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Portrait of the Artist, 1650
"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. | |
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Nicolas Poussin's Landscape Allegories
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Poussin and the Poetics of Painting
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Sublime Poussin
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Nicolas Poussin
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