Extreme Unction (recto); Three Heads and Other Sketches (verso)
Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665) · 1643–44 · pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash
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About this picture
Extreme Unction (recto); Three Heads and Other Sketches (verso) is a CC0 drawing by Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665), dated 1643–44. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Extreme Unction (recto); Three Heads and Other Sketches (verso)” (1643–44) is ordered the way Poussin ordered a picture: a few figures, a clear interval between them, and a landscape that stays behind the story.
About the artist
Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) was a French painter working in Rome. His landscapes and history pictures are built on a few clear figures and a measured space.
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