Word: poussins
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...choices than planks in a pedagogical platform. The bulk of the collection dates from before 1900. There are quaint, good things, such as Sir Edward Burne-Jones's eight pre-Raphaelite panels of the Perseus legend. There are great artists with bad works: a Degas copy of a Poussin, and a grotesquely tortured Orozco Slave...
...bull's-eye. Son of a sculptor, he is said to have made sketches in his cradle. When he was not yet 15, he won the patronage of Chancellor Pierre Séguier (see color), who later sent him to Rome to study with the expatriate classicist Poussin. Le Brun was solidly attached to the papal court of the Barberini family, and after the Pamphilis took over, he headed back to France. Plunging into the Parisian artistic establishment, Le Brun helped organize the Royal Academy, became its rector, and began to tighten his grip on the new generation...
Hyppolyte Petitjean's attempt to come to terms with academic subject matter using a late Impressionist but revealing "En arcadie" Archaic figures, who might have come from Poussin, disport themselves in structurally significant positions, but the light that diffuses over them breaks up into the pointillism of Seurat. Petitjean's attempt produces something of a curiosity - it is an if the lightheaded figures form Poussin's "Baccahanale" (in Mr. Chrysler's collection) had been suddenly calmed by a curious atmosphere they did not understand, the atmosphere of "La Grande Jatte...
...such "mannerists" as Jacques Bellange and Jacques Callot-a school that liked to dramatize its paintings by theatrical elongations, foreshortenings and tricks of lighting-were still active, but the school as a whole had had its day. New styles were needed, and most of them had to be borrowed. Poussin developed his meticulous classicism in Rome, where he worked most of his life. Philippe de Champaigne moved to Paris from his native Flanders, and a school of naturalists bore the stamp of the Italian Caravaggio. But what the French borrowed they made their own. Under Henri IV (who ruled from...
...Nain contemporary, the onetime pastry cook Claude Lorrain, was a classicist, but he followed a far different path than Poussin took. He was less interested in ideas or subject matter than in the wonders that nature poured out all around him. He was the first Frenchman to paint similar scenes at different times of day, the first to record the fickle moods of light. His Seaport is as well ordered as a classical painting should be, but there is a quiet sadness about the yellow daylight and a heavy loneliness about the dancing...