File:Winter 1660-1664 Nicolas Poussin.jpg

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Nicolas Poussin: Winter

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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'Hiver

Winter

Part of

The Four Seasons

Object type

painting

Genre

landscape art

Description

Genesis flood narrative

Date

between 1660 and 1664

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 118 cm (46.4 in)

; width: 160 cm (62.9 in)

; thickness: 7.5 cm (2.9 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 7306 and MR 2336 (Department of Paintings of the Louvre)

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part of: The Four Seasons

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- Нікола Пуссен

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POUSSIN, Nicolas

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

Winter 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. All Poussin's severity and pessimism seem to have disappeared in these paintings, to be replaced by a fusion of all the poetical leanings in his nature. 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.

These pictures exist on a complex series of levels, and even the most unscholarly spectator must be aware that Poussin was trying to balance moods and ideas in a much more subtle and intricate way than usual. Firstly, the pictures are a sequence, and they are hung in this way in the Grande Galerie of the Louvre. Spring is cool in tone, Summer and Autumn are warm, and Winter is cold. Even this obvious modulation of tones has its own rhythm. In all but Winter man is seen in harmony with nature, especially in Spring, surely one of the most perfect evocations of Paradise since the subject was attempted by fifteenth-century Netherlandish painters. <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, 11 minutes):<BR><A HREF="#" onClick="w=window.open ('/music1/18_cent/vivaldi_rv297_winter.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 F minor RV 297 op. 8 No. 4 (Winter)</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE>

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Author: POUSSIN, Nicolas Title: Winter Time-line: 1601-1650 School: French Form: painting

Type: landscape

File:Winter 1660-1664 Nicolas Poussin.jpg

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