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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 1,010,901 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Nicolas Poussin is the 44th most popular painter (up from 48th in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from France (up from 126th 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 44 out of 2,023. Before him are René Magritte, Masaccio, Gustave Courbet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Amedeo Modigliani, and Tintoretto. After him are Anthony van Dyck, Paolo Veronese, Andrea del Verrocchio, J. M. W. Turner, Paul Klee, and Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicolas Poussin ranks 101 out of 6,770. Before him are Caracalla (188), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Marcel Duchamp (1887), Claude Debussy (1862), Louis XI of France (1423), and François Mitterrand (1916). After him are Philip II of France (1165), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), André Gide (1869), Philip V of Spain (1683), Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763), and Henry II of France (1519).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Nicolas Poussin ranks 13. Before him are Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Gustave Courbet (1819), and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864). After him are Georges Braque (1882), Jean-François Millet (1814), Théodore Géricault (1791), Georges Seurat (1859), Henri Rousseau (1844), and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796).

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