Studies of Details from Trajan's Column
Nicolas Poussin
ca. 1635
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 12 x 8 7/8 in. (30.5 x 22.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 2006
Accession Number
2006.393.28
Tags
Men
About the Artist
Nicolas Poussin · 1594–1665
Nicolas Poussin, born in June 1594 near Les Andelys in Normandy, emerged from a family of local distinction whose modest means and parental opposition could not deter his artistic calling. He received his initial training under the itinerant painter Quentin Varin in Rouen around 1611–12, absorbing lessons in storytelling, precise facial expressions, and rich colors, though without a formal long-te...