Poussin

[ poo-san ]

noun

1. Ni·co·las [nee-kaw-, lah], 1594–1655, French painter.

poussin

¹

/ pusɛ̃ /

noun

1. a young chicken reared for eating

Poussin

²

/ pusɛ̃ /

noun

1. PoussinNicolas15941665MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Poussin¹

from French

Example Sentences

Certain pearl-gray days in summer, or autumn afternoons under enormous Poussin skies, convince me I belong here.

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We have often wondered with what blue their deep-toned cool greens were made, as in the landscapes of Gaspar Poussin.

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This sketch is in the best manner of Poussin, and was formerly in the collection of M. de St. Aubin.

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It is a landscape by Poussin in words, and is melodious and soothing, as befits the subject.

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If Lesueur is the painter of sentiment, Poussin is the painter of thought.

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Champagne is inferior to Lesueur and Poussin, but he is of their family.

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