The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Special Exhibitions: Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions Annotated
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
February 12, 2008–May 11, 2008
French master Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) painted some of the most influential landscapes in Western art.
This will be the first exhibition to examine the landscapes of this great painter. It will bring together about 40 paintings, ranging from his early, lyrical, Venetian-inspired pastorals to his grandly structured and austere works in which the artist meditated upon Nature, its transformations and its renewals. There will also be an equal number of drawings, the most luminous of which were done en plein air.