Poussin
Ni·co·las [nee-kaw-lah], /ni kɔˈlɑ/, 1594–1655, French painter.
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Certain pearl-gray days in summer, or autumn afternoons under enormous Poussin skies, convince me I belong here.
How I Write: John Banville on ‘Ancient Light,’ Nabokov, and Dublin | Noah Charney | October 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWe have often wondered with what blue their deep-toned cool greens were made, as in the landscapes of Gaspar Poussin.
This sketch is in the best manner of Poussin, and was formerly in the collection of M. de St. Aubin.
It is a landscape by Poussin in words, and is melodious and soothing, as befits the subject.
The Browning Cyclopdia | Edward BerdoeIf Lesueur is the painter of sentiment, Poussin is the painter of thought.
Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good | Victor Cousin
Champagne is inferior to Lesueur and Poussin, but he is of their family.
Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good | Victor Cousin
British Dictionary definitions for poussin (1 of 2)
/ (French pusɛ̃) /
a young chicken reared for eating
Origin of poussin
1British Dictionary definitions for Poussin (2 of 2)
/ (French pusɛ̃) /
Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). 1594–1665, French painter, regarded as a leader of French classical painting. He is best known for the austere historical and biblical paintings and landscapes of his later years
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