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| Dance to the Music of Time c. 1633-34 |
In 1966 Abrams was the leading New York publisher of art books. They were the natural ones at that time in that place to find a wide public for Walter Friedlaender's ambitious and important book, Nicolas Poussin : A New Approach. It is a book I am presently rereading. Current-days people might be put off by the fact that all reproductions within the text are black-and-white. However, there is a thick section of tipped-in plates at the back printed and mounted on special papers and done to a quite high standard of color (by the standards that prevailed fifty years ago). The writing also seems a little old-fashioned, tending more than any art writing at present toward an ideal of gentlemanly connoisseurship. It is a familiar tone of voice to me – the benign, inviting tone I first encountered as a child when I began reading the fat art books at the Rock Island Public Library on my own, long before dreaming of owning any.
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| Diana and Endymion c. 1630 |
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| Arcadian Shepherds c. 1627-28 |
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| Death of Germanicus 1628 |
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| Finding of Moses 1638 |
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| Inspiration of the Poet (detail) c. 1630 |
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| Landscape with Two Nymphs 1659 |
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| Landscape with Three Men 1648-50 |
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| Hagar and the Angel c. 1660-65 |
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| Apollo and Daphne (unfinished) 1664 |