Poussin

[ poo-san ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Poussin

/ pusɛ̃ /

PoussinNicolas15941665MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). 1594–1665, French painter, regarded as a leader of French classical painting. He is best known for the austere historical and biblical paintings and landscapes of his later years

poussin

/ pusɛ̃ /

Origin of Poussin¹

from French

Certain pearl-gray days in summer, or autumn afternoons under enormous Poussin skies, convince me I belong here.

We have often wondered with what blue their deep-toned cool greens were made, as in the landscapes of Gaspar Poussin.

This sketch is in the best manner of Poussin, and was formerly in the collection of M. de St. Aubin.

It is a landscape by Poussin in words, and is melodious and soothing, as befits the subject.

If Lesueur is the painter of sentiment, Poussin is the painter of thought.

Champagne is inferior to Lesueur and Poussin, but he is of their family.

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