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Unlike most other stories in La Comédie humaine, this is set in the 17th century, in the year 1612. Of the three artists depicted in this story, Poussin and Porbus were real artists of the 17th century. Frenhofer is a purely fictional character, allegedly the only pupil of Mabuse. In the case of Porbus, Balzac used the gallicized version of ...
This picture is composed twelve figures, representing the noble Roman, clad in a vesture and a red mantle, seated on an elevation at the side, extending his hand apparently addressing the young Carthaginian, who with his affianced bride is standing before him: the former is bowing, gratefully acknowledging his generosity and justice, and the latter is seen in a front view, with two young women ...
Sold by Poussin for 7 écus, bought by Catherine II of Russia: Saint-Petersburg, Hermitage Museum: 17/29 Bacchanale or Bacchus and Ariadne: 1625–1626: 122 x 169 cm: Mentioned in the catalogue of the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso in 1746. Attribution rejected by Blunt but supported by Thuillier and Rosenberg: Madrid, Prado: 24/R66
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.
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]
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 French born painter Nicolas Poussin had made his home in Rome since the age of 30. At the end of his life, from 1660 to 1664, he undertook his last set of paintings, The Four Seasons, a work commissioned by the Duc de Richelieu, grand-nephew of Cardinal Richelieu.
The Manna, by Poussin, 149 x 200 cm. The Manna (French: La Manne), formerly titled The Israelites Gathering Manna in the Desert (Les Israélites recueillant la manne dans le désert), is an oil painting by Poussin, dated to 1638 or 1639, which is now in the Louvre, in Paris. [1] The work is regarded as one of Poussin's most ambitious. [2]