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Nicolas Poussin

1594 - 1665

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Nicolas Poussin (UK: , US: , French: [nikɔla pusɛ̃]; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of Italian and French collectors. He returned to Paris for a brief period to serve as First Painter to the King under Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu, but soon returned to Rome and resumed his more traditional themes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolas Poussin has received more than 948,172 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Nicolas Poussin is the 48th most popular painter (down from 45th in 2019), the 126th most popular biography from France (down from 93rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Painter.

Nicolas Poussin is most famous for his painting, "The Arcadian Shepherds."

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Nicolas Poussin ranks 48 out of 1,421Before him are Masaccio, Caspar David Friedrich, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, J. M. W. Turner, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Camille Pissarro. After him are Paul Klee, Georges Braque, Andrea del Verrocchio, Georges Seurat, Paolo Veronese, and Ilya Repin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1594, Nicolas Poussin ranks 2Before him is Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. After him are Willem Claesz. Heda, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, César, Duke of Vendôme, Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency, Clara Peeters, Vincenzo II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Frederick V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Cornelis van Poelenburgh, and Ngawang Namgyal. Among people deceased in 1665, Nicolas Poussin ranks 3Before him are Pierre de Fermat and Philip IV of Spain. After him are Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, César, Duke of Vendôme, Elisabetta Sirani, Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria, Stefan Czarniecki, Jean Bolland, and Pieter Jansz. Saenredam.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicolas Poussin ranks 126 out of 6,011Before him are Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763), Hugh Capet (940), Jacques Chirac (1932), Louis XVIII of France (1755), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), and Henri Poincaré (1854). After him are Luc Montagnier (1932), Charles VI of France (1368), François Villon (1431), Roman Polanski (1933), Thérèse of Lisieux (1873), and Godfrey of Bouillon (1060).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Nicolas Poussin ranks 13Before him are Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Gustave Courbet (1819), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864). After him are Georges Braque (1882), Georges Seurat (1859), Jean-François Millet (1814), Théodore Géricault (1791), Alfred Sisley (1839), and Henri Rousseau (1844).