Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy.

The Walker Art Gallery houses a collection including Italian and Netherlandish paintings from 1300 – 1550, European art from 1550 – 1900, including works by Rembrandt, Poussin and Degas, 18th and 19th-century British art, including a major collection of Victorian painting and many Pre-Raphaelite works, a wide collection of prints, drawings and watercolours, 20th-century works by artists such as Lucian Freud, David Hockney and Gilbert and George and a major sculpture collection.

In France, both history painting and the Neoclassical style continued through the work of Antoine-Jean Gros, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, François Gérard, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin — teacher of both Géricault and Delacroix — and other artists who remained committed to the artistic traditions of David and Nicolas Poussin.

The old academy's art collection, which included major works by Poussin, David and Ingres, was removed to the Hermitage Museum across the river.

" David Wood, in his book Genisis, likewise ascribes a deeper significance to the Paris meridian and takes it into account when trying to decipher the geometry of the myth-encrusted village of Rennes-le-Château: The meridian passes about 350 meters ( 1, 150 ft ) west of the site of the so-called " Poussin tomb ," an important location in the legends and esoteric theories relating to that place.

Aspects of his work on the studies of anatomy, light and the landscape were assembled for publication by his pupil Francesco Melzi and eventually published as Treatise on Painting by Leonardo da Vinci in France and Italy in 1651 and Germany in 1724, with engravings based upon drawings by the Classical painter Nicholas Poussin.

His two brothers-in-law were artists and Gaspard Dughet later took Poussin ’ s surname.

Among her favorite painters were Nicholas Poussin and Peter Paul Rubens, but she also copied the paintings of Paulus Potter, Porbus, Louis Léopold Robert, Salvatore Rosa and Karel Dujardin.

Later, French artists were also attracted to the pastoral, notably Claude, Poussin ( e. g. Et in Arcadia ego ) and Watteau ( in his Fêtes galantes ).

A number of paintings by Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorraine, the leading French, classicising painters, were directly commissioned from the artists during the reign of Philip IV to decorate the Buen Retiro Palace.

The inspiration behind their creation were the painters Claude Lorrain, Poussin and, in particular, Gaspar Dughet, who painted Utopian-type views of Italian landscapes.

Being very interested in the arts, she also wrote a book about the French baroque painter Nicolas Poussin, Memoirs of the Life of Nicholas Poussin ( French first names were usually Anglicised in those days ), in 1820.

Compositional formulae using elements like the repoussoir were evolved which remain influential in modern photography and painting, notably by Poussin and Claude Lorrain, both French artists living in 17th century Rome and painting largely classical subject-matter, or Biblical scenes set in the same landscapes.

Various techniques were used to simulate the randomness of natural forms in invented compositions: the medieval advice of Cennino Cennini to copy ragged crags from small rough rocks was apparently followed by both Poussin and Thomas Gainsborough, while Degas copied cloud forms from a crumpled handkerchief held up against the light.

Poussin or Spatchcock were generally butterflied in preparation for faster cooking, hence in modern English the word has come to refer to both the bird and the manner in which it was traditionally prepared.

His residence at Rome he turned to good account by diligent study of its ancient monuments, by examination of the literary treasures of its libraries, and by cultivating the acquaintance of men eminent in literature and in art, with whom he was brought into contact through his translation of Francesco Cardinal Barberini's Life of Pius V. Among his friends was Nicolas Poussin, whose counsels were of great value to him, and under whose guidance he even attempted to paint and whose biography Félibien wrote, which remains " the most persuasive guide to the work, as to the life " of Poussin, as the biography's modern editor Claire Pace observed.

Among the partisans of Sacchi's argument for simplicity and focus were his friends, the sculptor Algardi and painter Poussin.

The dignity and subject matter of his paintings were greatly inspired by Nicolas Poussin in the seventeenth century.

The dignity and subject matter of his paintings were greatly inspired by Nicolas Poussin in the 17th century.

Even before World War I, some of his compositions were in line with the idyllic tradition represented by works of such artists as Poussin, Claude ( called le Lorraine ), Watteau, and most of all Puvis de Chavannes, whose Poor Fisherman at the Louvre inspired a number of Żak ’ s paintings and drawings.

They were often inspired by paintings of landscapes by Claude Lorraine and Nicolas Poussin, and some were Influenced by the classic Chinese gardens of the East, which had recently been described by European travelers.

Painters like Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, François Boucher, Nicholas Poussin made use of her myth as a major theme.

Michallon also exposed him to the principles of the French Neoclassic tradition, as espoused in the famous treatise of theorist Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, and exemplified in the works of French Neoclassicists Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, whose major aim was the representation of ideal Beauty in nature, linked with events in ancient times.

Beside his academic career, he has organised several expositions: " De Nicolo Dell ' Abate à Nicolas Poussin: Aux Sources Du Classicisme " ( Meaux ), " La Lumière au siècle des lumières " ( Nancy ), " Passions de l " âme " ( Meaux ) and co-organised ( with Jean Clair ) a major exposition on art and sciences in Paris " l ' Ame au corps ".

Nicolas Poussin produced two major versions of this subject, which enabled him to display to the full his unsurpassed antiquarian knowledge, together with his mastery of complicated relations of figures in dramatic encounter.

A hall was opened by Le Normant de Tournehem and the Marquis de Marigny for public viewing of the Tableaux du Roy on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and contained Andrea del Sarto's Charity and works by Raphael ; Titian ; Veronese ; Rembrandt ; Poussin or Van Dyck, until its closing in 1780 as a result of the gift of the palace to the comte de Provence by the king in 1778.

He also based paintings on works by Goya, Poussin, Manet, Courbet and Delacroix.

Marino employed him on illustrations to his poem Adone ( untraced ) and on a series of illustrations for a projected edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, took him into his household, and in 1624 enabled Poussin ( who had been detained by commissions in Lyon and Paris ) to rejoin him at Rome.

Cedalion standing on the shoulders of Orion ; detail from Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun by Nicolas Poussin, 1658, Oil on canvas ; 46 7 / 8 x 72 in.

( c. 1602 ), which reveals a striking economy in figure composition and a force and precision of gesture that influenced on Poussin and through him, the language of gesture in painting.

Inspired by the work of on Morse theory, found another proof, using Deligne's l-adic Fourier transform, which allowed him to simplify Deligne's proof by avoiding the use of the method of Hadamard and de la Vallée Poussin.

* Abhidharma Kosha Bhashyam 4 vols, Vasubandhu, translated into English by Leo Pruden ( based on Louis de la Vallée Poussin ’ s French translation ), Asian Humanities Press, Berkeley, 1988-90.

He published several books on art and artists, including Jack B. Yeats: An Appreciation and an Interpretation ( on Jack Butler Yeats ) and Pictures in the Irish National Gallery ( both 1945 ), and Nicolas Poussin ( 1960 ) on Nicholas Poussin.

The Raphael of the cartoons was revered by the Carracci, but the great period of their influence began with Nicolas Poussin, who borrowed heavily from them and " indeed exaggerated Raphael's style – or rather concentrated it, for he was working on a much smaller scale ".

In 1621 he moved to Paris, where he worked with Nicolas Poussin on the decoration of the Palais du Luxembourg under the direction of Nicolas Duchesne, whose daughter he married.

Nicolas Poussin, Tancred and Erminia ( c. 1634 ), Oil on canvasThe collection is full of famous works by artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso and Rembrandt, displayed in spacious and elegant galleries on the first floor of the Institute.

Furbank's other books include one the poet Mallarmé and the painter Poussin, Italo Svevo: The Man and the Writer ( 1966 ) and Behalf ( 1999 ) on political thought.

" Stella painting a Madonna on his Prison Wall ," 1810 ( Leuchtenberg collection ); " Sodoma a l ' hôpital ," 1815 ( Louvre ); " Basilique basse de St François d ' Assise ," 1823 ( Louvre ); " Rachat de prisonniers ," 1831 ( Louvre ); " Mort de Poussin ," 1834 ( Villa Demidoff, Florence ), are among his principal works ; all are marked by the same peculiarities, everything is sacrificed to tone.

* John Lennard, ' Of Policemen and Poussin: Bill James's Dance to the Muzak of Crime ', in Of Sex and Faerie: Further essays on Genre Fiction ( Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, 2010 ), pp. 10 – 46

Twombly's work went on display as part of " Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian Painters " at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London from June 29, 2011 less than a week before Twombly's death.

Vivant Denon with Jean Pesne's engraved Oeuvres de Nicolas Poussin, portrait by Robert Lefèvre ( Musée National du Château de Versailles )

Other paintings in the collection include works by Fra Angelico, Filippino Lippi, Hans Memling, 260 paintings and drawings by François and Jean Clouet, Veronese, Barocci, Annibale Carracci, Domenichino, Salvator Rosa, Nicolas Poussin, Philippe de Champaigne, Van Dyck, Guido Reni, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Joshua Reynolds, Eugène Delacroix, Ingres, Géricault.

One also finds in the early period of the 19th century a repeat of the debate carried on in the 17th between the supporters of Rubens and Poussin: there are defenders of the " line " as found in Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and the violent colors and curves as found in Eugène Delacroix.

He moved to Rome in 1635 as a youth, there he studied painting under Jean Lemaire and Poussin, but abandoned it to devote himself entirely to engraving and as an antiquarian for Christina, Queen of Sweden.