Collective work, published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2008
Exhibition catalogue by Pierre Rosenberg
The work of the great French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) is most often associated with classically inspired settings and figures depicting solemn scenes from mythology or the Bible. Yet he also created some of the most influential landscapes in Western art, endowing them with a poetic quality that has been admired by artists as different as John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, and Paul Cézanne. As the british critic William Hazlitt noted in 1821, “This great and learned man might be said to see nature trough the glass of time”.
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