Author: Poussin, Nicolas
Title: Nicolas Poussin: Paintings and Drawings in Soviet Museums
Description: Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers, 1990. Hardcover. Gold cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, color illustrated dust jacket with white lettering, 215 pp, profusely illustrated in bw and color. "This new volume in the Aurora cycle of monographic editions is devoted to the great seventeenth-century French artist Nicolas Poussin. A splendid collection of his paintnigs and drawings is housed in two major Soviet museums. The Hermitage in Leningrad and The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. All the works by the painter in this art book are accompanied with scholarly commentaries written by Irina Kuznetsova, Marina Maiskaya, Nadezhda Petrusevich and Natalia Serebriannay, the leading researchers of the above musemes. They give an overall description of each work, including its content, style, provenance and place in Poussin's artistic legacy. A select bibliography and a large number of analogies from various museums and collections in the world are provided."- Dust jacket. VG+/VG (overall light wear to dust jacket) .

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