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Nicolas Poussin
[French Baroque Era Painter, 1594-1665]
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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.
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
Landscape with Saint John on Patmos
Nicolas Poussin at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
4 works by Nicolas Poussin
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
Conquest of Jerusalem by Emperor Titus, 1638
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 (only available in French)
39 paintings
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Many works, including: Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, 1658
Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, 1655
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, ca.1627
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Study of a Palm Tree, pen and ink, ca.1635-40
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
The Death of Germanicus, 1627
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 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, Ontario
Landscape with a Woman Washing her Feet (Vertumnus and Pomona)
The Martyrdom of St. Erasmus
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
The Triumph of Bacchus, 1635-36 (Zoom)
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
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
Art Fund for UK Museums
10 works
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
Venus, Mother of Aeneas, presenting him with Arms forged by Vulcan, ca.1636-37
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Nymphs and a Satyr (Amor vincit omnia)
The Return of the Holy Family to Nazareth
The Holy Family on the Steps
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Sister Wendy on The Holy Family on the Steps, 1648
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
Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
View of the Tiber Valley with Ponte Molle, ca.1624
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Haus der Kunst, Munich (mostly in German)
Das Reich der Flora, ca.1630/31
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Venus and Adonis
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French) NEW!
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Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France (in French)
L'Enlèvement des Sabines, drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France (partly in French)
Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, France
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
L'enlèvement des Sabines, 1637
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France NEW!
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
The Crossing of the Red Sea, ca.1634
National Museum Kassel, Germany (in German)
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
The Finding of Moses
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Landscape with the ashes of Phocion, 1648
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
The Holy family, ca.1632
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
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
Professional Tools:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 822
Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
Artchive
9 works
Artonline
CGFA
21 works
Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Aiwaz Panopticon
Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)
Artyzm
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
Olga's Gallery
University of Leipzig, Germany
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Other Web Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Kilidavid
The Modernist Journals Project
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Nicolas Poussin
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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
Art & Antiques Magazine
"Visit to Arcadia: Nicolas Poussin saw nature through eyes very different from ours"
Artcyclopedia
"Poussin and the Heroic Landscape"
Artnet Magazine
Ecstasy of Saint Paul, 1643
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
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
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