artist: Nicolas Poussin

instance of: painting (175) | drawing (12) | sketch (6) | study (2) | tondo (1)

commissioned by: Cassiano dal Pozzo (8) | Cardinal Richelieu (1) | Clement IX (1) | André Le Nôtre (1) | Francesco Barberini (1) | Vincenzo Giustiniani (1) | Fabric of Saint Peter (1) | Paul Fréart de Chantelou (1)

owned by: France (1) | Louvre Museum (1) | Adam Gottlob Moltke (1) | Cardinal Mazarin (1) | National Gallery (1) | Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes (1) | Nicolas Fouquet (1) | Institut de France (1) | Thomas Charles Hope (1) | John G. Johnson (1) | Armand Jean de Vignerot du Plessis (1) | Armand de Madaillan (1) | Earl of Radnor (1) | Frederik Moltke (1) | Fabrizio Valguarnera (1) | William T. Blodgett (1)

movement: classicism (37)

genre: religious art (65) | mythological painting (29) | landscape art (23) | history painting (3) | allegory (3) | nude (2) | self-portrait (2) | religious painting (2) | cityscape (1) | three-quarter portait (1) | half-length portrait (1)

based on: Greek mythology (3) | Exodus (1) | Joshua (1) | Metamorphoses (1) | Bibliotheca (1) | flight into Egypt (1) | Judgment of Solomon (1) | La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (1) | The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1)

depicts: woman (26) | man (20) | broad-leaved tree (15) | landscape (13) | Moses (9) | child (7) | cloud (7) | mountain (7) | Virgin Mary (6) | city (6) | nudity (6) | angel (6) | soldier (6) | baby (5) | sky (4) | snake (4) | column (4) | tree (4)

material used: oil paint (172) | canvas (161) | paper (6) | canvas (6) | quill (5) | ink (3) | panel (2) | black chalk (2) | wood (1) | graphite (1) | pencil (1) | feather (1) | paint (1) | chalk (1) | laid paper (1)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (41) | National Gallery (16) | Hermitage Museum (10) | Museo del Prado (10) | National Galleries of Scotland (9) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (7) | Condé Museum (7) | Dulwich Picture Gallery (7) | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (6) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (6) | J. Paul Getty Museum (4) | National Museum of Ancient Art (3) | Cleveland Museum of Art (3) | Statens Museum for Kunst (3) | Detroit Institute of Arts (3) | Duke of Rutland collection (3) | Cook collection (3) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (2)

location: National Gallery (13) | Hermitage Museum (10) | Museo del Prado (10) | Louvre Palace (10) | Scottish National Gallery (9) | Room 828 (9) | Condé Museum (7) | Dulwich Picture Gallery (7) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (6) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (6) | Room 826 (5) | Room 827 (5) | Fitzwilliam Museum (4) | Louvre Museum (3) | Alte Pinakothek (3) | Cleveland Museum of Art (3) | Statens Museum for Kunst (3) | Belvoir Castle (3)

part of: Seven Sacraments (6) | The Four Seasons (4) | The Abduction of the Sabine Women (2)

country of origin: France (5)

exhibition history: Europeana 280 (1)

main subject: Holy Family (4) | Adoration of the shepherds (4) | Annunciation (3) | Finding of Moses (3) | Assumption of Mary (2) | Baptism of Jesus (2) | massacre of the Innocents (2) | mythology (1) | Nativity of Jesus (1) | Last Supper (1) | Noli me tangere (1) | Orion (1) | Adoration of the Magi (1) | Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (1) | flight into Egypt (1) | Burning bush (1) | the continence of Scipio (1) | Rape of the Sabine Women (1)

published in: Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1)

fabrication method: ink wash painting (5)