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| Nicolas Poussin Mercury preparing to kill Argus before 1665 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Nicolas Poussin St Mary of Egypt and St Zosimus in a Landscape before 1665 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Nicolas Poussin Pallas and the Muses before 1665 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
"The name Gilberte passed close by me . . . forming, on its celestial passage through the midst of the children and their nursemaids, a little cloud, exquisitely coloured, like the cloud that, curling over one of Poussin's gardens, reflects minutely, like a cloud in the opera, teeming with chariots and horses, some apparition of the life of the gods; casting, finally, on that ragged grass, at the spot on which she stood (at once a scrap of withered lawn and a moment in the afternoon of the fair player, who continued to beat up and catch her shuttlecock until a governess, with a blue feather in her hat, had called her away) a marvellous band of light, of the colour of heliotrope, spread over the lawn like a carpet on which I could not tire of treading to and fro with lingering feet, nostalgic and profane . . ."
– Marcel Proust, from Swann's Way, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff (1922)
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| Nicolas Poussin Medea killing her Children ca. 1650 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Nicolas Poussin Saving of the Infant Pyrrhus ca. 1633-34 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Nicolas Poussin Thetis bringing Arms to Achilles before 1665 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Nicolas Poussin Nymph, Satyr and Cupid before 1665 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Nicolas Poussin The Origin of Coral ca. 1627 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Nicolas Poussin Holy Family in the Temple ca. 1641-43 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Nicolas Poussin Finding of Queen Zenobia before 1665 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Nicolas Poussin Triumph of Pan ca. 1635 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Nicolas Poussin Kingdom of Flora ca. 1627 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Nicolas Poussin Acis transformed into a River God ca. 1622-23 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Nicolas Poussin Dance before a Herm of Pan ca. 1631-32 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |