The Holy Family in Egypt, 1655-57, Oil on canvas, 105 x 145 cm
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Other significant collections are in the National Gallery in London; the National Gallery of Scotland; the Dulwich Picture Gallery; the Musée Condé, Chantilly; the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; and the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
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The finest collection of Poussin's paintings is at the Louvre in Paris.
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Poussin believed in reason as the guiding principle of art, yet his figures are never merely cold or lifeless.
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The specific models hardly matter. We are not intended to have sympathy with them and instead we are forced by the artist to think on the theme."
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Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work. Et in Arcadia ego, a subject he painted twice, exemplifies his cerebral approach.
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His goal was clarity of expression achieved by disegno or ‘nobility of design’ in preference to colore or color.
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with conscious reference to the art of classical antiquity as the standard of excellence.
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a survival of the impulses of the Renaissance is coupled