Poussin

[poo-san]

noun

1. Nicolas 1594–1655, French painter.

Poussin

¹

/ pusɛ̃ /

noun

1. 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

poussin

²

/ pusɛ̃ /

noun

1. a young chicken reared for eating

Word History and Origins

Origin of Poussin¹

from French

Example Sentences

Poussin plays an outsize role in a number of major works that respond to the French Baroque classicist’s elaborate paintings, which are based on ancient religious and mythological stories.

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But in his art, Giacometti was exacting and fastidious, bowing before a classical impulse that ran from ancient Egypt and archaic Greece through the classical French tradition, from Poussin to Cézanne and Matisse.

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This is exemplified in this superb show by the lunging bodies and brushwork in his copy of a Poussin.

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Thompson often quotes inspirations like Goya and Poussin, but his inimitable style is marked by silhouetted figures in bright, solid colors, placed in often mysterious scenarios in pastoral settings.

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But the works are also infused with the atmosphere of tenderness and religiosity in the Renaissance Italians and in Poussin.

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