File:Nicolas Poussin - Summer (Ruth and Boaz) - WGA18342.jpg

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Nicolas Poussin: Summer

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Alternative names	Niccolò Possino
Description	French painter, drawer and decorator
Date of birth/death	June 1594	19 November 1665
Location of birth/death	Les Andelys	Rome
Work location	Paris (1612-1621), Lyon (1622), Rome (1624-1640), Paris (1640-1642), Rome (1643-1665)
Authority file	: Q41554 VIAF: 24606800 ISNI: 0000000120999120 ULAN: 500005036 LCCN: n80028152 NLA: 35789482 WorldCat

Title

French:

L'Été

Summer

Part of

The Four Seasons

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painting

Genre

landscape art

Depicted people

Ruth
Boaz

Date

between 1660 and 1664 / between 1660 and 1664

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 118 cm (46.4 in)

; width: 160 cm (62.9 in)

; thickness: 8.5 cm (3.3 in)

Collection

Louvre Museum (Inventory)

	Native name	Louvre Museum
	Location	1st arrondissement of Paris , France
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 40″ N, 2° 20′ 09″ E
	Established	10 August 1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority file	: Q19675 VIAF: 257711507 ISNI: 000000012260177X ULAN: 500125189 LCCN: n80020283 NLA: 35912436 WorldCat

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Department of Paintings of the Louvre

Room 825

Accession number

INV 7304 and MR 2338 (Department of Paintings of the Louvre)

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part of: The Four Seasons

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POUSSIN, Nicolas

(b. 1594, Les Andelys, d. 1665, Roma)

Summer (Ruth and Boaz) 1660-64 Oil on canvas, 118 x 160 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Seasons, the four canvasses of Poussin's late period now in the Louvre, are an even more extreme personal statement than the Landscape with Diana and Orion. They are the supreme expression, not in this case of mind over eye, but of praise for the beauty and grandeur of nature, now ordered by man, and now defeating man. Spring is luxuriant, Summer a fecund harvest, Autumn the gathering of mellow grapes and Winter the terrible deluge in which all mankind is overwhelmed and destroyed.

The biblical story depicted in Summer is the following.

Ruth was a Moabite woman and great-grandmother of David, and therefore an ancestress of Christ, hence her place in Christian art. She was married to a Hebrew immigrant in Moab and after his death left her native land and went with her mother-in-law Naomi, to Bethlehem. Here she was allowed to glean the corn in the fields belonging to Boaz, a rich farmer and kinsman of Naomi. Ruth, true to her nature, maintained, on Naomi's advice, a modest demeanour among the young men working at the harvest. One night she went and lay at the feet of Boaz as he slept in the field. By this act Boaz saw her virtue and later decided to assume responsibilities towards her of a kinsman. In due course he married her. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 10 minutes):<BR><A HREF="#" onClick="w=window.open ('/music1/18_cent/vivaldi_rv315_summer.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350');w.opener=this;w.focus();return true"><B>Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor RV 315 op. 8. No. 2 (Summer)</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE>

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Author: POUSSIN, Nicolas Title: Summer (Ruth and Boaz) Time-line: 1601-1650 School: French Form: painting

Type: landscape

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