Volume 42, Number 5 · March 23, 1995
Poussin's Season
By Francis Haskell
Nicolas Poussin 1594–1665 Paris, September 1994–January 1995, by
catalog of the exhibition at the Grand Palais, Pierre Rosenberg, by Louis-Antoine Prat
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 558 pp., FF350 (paper)
OTHER RECENT WORKS ON POUSSIN DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
Nicolas Poussin 1594–1665 January 19–April 9, 1995, by Richard Verdi and others.
catalog of the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London,
Zwemmer/Royal Academy of Art, 336 pp., $70.00
Nicolas Poussin 1594–1665: Catalogue raisonné des dessins
by Pierre Rosenberg, by Louis-Antoine Prat
Leonardo Editore, distributed in the US by Ars Libri, two volumes, 1,217 pp., $700.00
Nicolas Poussin: La Collection du Musée Bonnat à Bayonne
by Pierre Rosenberg, by Louis-Antoine Prat
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 86 pp., FF100
Poussin before Rome, 1594–1624
by Jacques Thuillier, translated by Christopher Allen
Richard L. Feigen, 190 pp., £40.00
A Dance to the Music of Time by Nicolas Poussin
by Richard Beresford
The Wallace Collection, 79 pp., £10.00 (paper)
Nicolas Poussin: La Collection du Musée Condé à Chantilly
by Pierre Rosenberg, by Louis-Antoine Prat
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 240 pp., FF195
Nicolas Poussin
by Anthony Blunt
Pallas Athene/to be distributed in the US by Boydell and Brewer, 687 pp., $39.95 (paper)
Nicolas Poussin
by Jacques Thuillier
Flammarion, 288 pp., FF195 (paper)
Autour de Poussin Musée du Louvre, 1994, by
Dossier-Exposition du Département des Peintures, Gilles Chomer, by Sylvain Laveissiére
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 120 pp., FF150
Poussin's Paintings: A Study in Art-Historical Methodology
by David Carrier
Pennsylvania State University Press, 276 pp., $35.00
The fourth centenary of the birth of Nicolas Poussin has been celebrated by a series of major, and also minor but important, exhibitions in Paris (a city that he abandoned at the earliest possible opportunity) and in London (where he had never been). Meanwhile in Rome (where he spent almost his entire working life) the anniversary has inspired the mounting of a small but—to judge from the admirable catalog[1]—enthralling exhibition, which contains superb pictures by some of his contemporaries (most of whom he appears to have disregarded or despised), but only one original painting by him—a small Midas at the Source of the Pactolus, lent by the Musée Fesch in Ajaccio.
Review, 8134 words
To read the full text of this piece, please choose one of the following options:
|
If you are already a subscriber to the Review's electronic edition, please sign in: |
To subscribe to the electronic edition, please press the button below. |
To purchase access to this article for $3, please press the button below. |