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Article: Toujours poussin: French paintings.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 15, 1994
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THE current celebration of France's 17th-century art will widen with "The Poetic Landscape", an exhibition of the paintings of Claude Lorrain (1600-82) at London's National Gallery from January 26th to April 10th. Unlike Nicolas Poussin (1593/4-1665), Georges de La Tour (1593-1652) and Claude Lorrain himself, most French artists of the period had sunk into oblivion when the rediscovery of France's 17th-century art began 15 years ago with a Paris showing of paintings by the Le Nain Brothers (Antoine, Louis and Mathieu).
Exhibitions followed on the work of other such forgotten painters as Simon Vouet (1590-1649) and Laurent de La Hyre (1606-56). The latest, devoted to ...