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A Dance to the Music of Time is a painting by Nicolas Poussin in the Wallace Collection in London. It was painted between c. 1634 and 1636 as a commission for Giulio Rospigliosi (later Pope Clement IX), who according to Gian Pietro Bellori dictated its detailed iconography. The identity of the figures remains uncertain, with differing accounts.
Nicolas Poussin (UK: / ˈ p uː s æ̃ /, US: / p uː ˈ s æ̃ /, [1] [2] French: [nikɔla pusɛ̃]; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for ...
Eliezer and Rebecca, Louvre version Private collection version. Eliezer and Rebecca (in French Éliézer et Rébecca) or Eliezer Giving Abraham's Presents to Rebecca (Éliézer remet les présents d'Abraham à Rébecca) is an oil-on-canvas paintings by Nicolas Poussin, dating to c.1647–1649, commissioned by silk merchant and banker Jean Pointel and is now in the Louvre.
This page is a list of paintings by Nicolas Poussin (Andelys, 15 June 1594 – Rome, 19 November 1665). The attributions vary notably from one art historian to another. The attributions vary notably from one art historian to another.
Orphée et Eurydice by Poussin, on website delapeinture.com (in French) Nicolas Poussin Biography, Style and Artworks; Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; 92 works by Nicolas Poussin; Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Nicolas Poussin" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
On one side stood the Poussinists (Fr. Poussinistes) who were a group of French artists, named after the painter Nicolas Poussin, who believed that drawing was the most important thing. [1] On the other side were the Rubenists (Fr. Rubénistes ), named after Peter Paul Rubens , who prioritized color. [ 2 ]
Produced for Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo, a close friend of Poussin, its first sale record was in London in 1795. [1] It was finally sold to art historian (and Cambridge spy) Anthony Blunt in 1933 and bought from his estate by its present owner in 1984. [1] It shows Rebecca quenching Eliezer's thirst. [1]
The Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite (or Birth of Venus) by Nicolas Poussin, painted in 1635 or 1636, is a painting housed in Philadelphia in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [1] It is in oil on canvas (114,4 x 146,6 cm) and shows a group of figures in the sea near a beach, with putti flying over their heads.