The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist
Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1627 · Oil on canvas
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About this picture
The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist is a public-domain painting by Nicolas Poussin, dated ca. 1627. Oil on canvas. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist” (ca. 1627) 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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