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July 29, 2009
Pierre Rosenberg and Keith Christiansen, eds. Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions Exh. cat. New Haven and New York: Yale University Press in association with Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008. 432 pp.; 232 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300136685)

Exhibition schedule: Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, October 8, 2007–January 13, 2008; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 12–May 11, 2008

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.73

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Nicolas Poussin. Landscape with Diogenes. Oil on canvas. 63 x 87 in. Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Peintures (Inv. 7308).

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Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions brought to New York City about forty paintings by Nicolas Poussin, along with a group of drawings by the artist and some of his contemporaries, for a superb exhibition devoted to an aspect of his work better known to specialists than the general public.1 Beautifully paced and hung, the exhibition was large enough to do justice to the subject without being overwhelming. A group of mainly small paintings from Poussin’s...