POUEBUS Rooses (Reber), 374 ; Van den Brnnden, 284. POURBUS, PEETER, the younger, born at Gouda, 1510 or 1513, died in Bruges or in Ant- werp, Jan. 30, 1584. Flemish school ; history and portrait painter, supposed pupil of Lanzelot Blondeel in Bru- ges, whoso daugh- ter he married. Was a remai'kable geom- etrician. Works : Portraits of John and Adrienno Fernagant (1551), Last Judgment (1551), Triptych with Descent from the Cross, Bruges Academy ; Last Judgment, City Hall, Bruges ; others in several churches, ib.; Portrait of Charles V. (1551), Annun- oiata Convent, ib.; Resurrection, Louvre ; Portrait of J. Van der Gheenste (1583), Brussels Museum ; Moses with the Deca- logue, Hague Museum ; Portrait of a Lady, Rotterdam Museum ; Male Portrait, Copen- hagen Gallery ; do. (5, two dated 1548, 1550), Vienna Museum ; Portrait of a Prin- cess, Naples Museum ; Portrait of Dr. Am- broise Pare, Historical Society, New York. Ch. Blanc, Ecole flamando ; Brandon, 278 ; Kugler (Crowe), i. 253; Messagerdes sciences hist. (1870) ; Michicls, v. 386 ; De Stuers, 236 ; Weale, Cat. Bruges Acad. (1861), 34. POUSSIN, GASPARD. See Dughet. POUSSFN, NICOLAS, born at Andelys, Normandy, in June, 1593, died iu Rome, Nov. 19, 1665. French school ; his- tory and landscape painter, pupil of Quentin Varin in Andelys, and of Noel Jouvenet, Ferdinand Elle, and Lallemont in Paris. Despite needy circumstances and two unsuccessful attempts, he made his way in 1624 to Rome, where he studied nat- ure and the antique with the sculptor Du- quesnoy ; married the daughter of Jacques Dughet, and adopted his son Gaspard, who j took his name and afterwards rivalled him in fame as a painter ; painted for Cardinal Barberini, and remained until 1640, when Louis Xni. sent M. de Chanteloup to bring him back to France. Although the king made him his first painter and showered honours upon him, Poussiu found his po- sition at Paris so intolerable on account of the jealous intrigues of Vouet, Fouquieres, and Mercier, that he returned to Rome on a leave of absence after two years, and con- sidering himself freed from keeping his promise to return, by the death of Cardinal Richelieu in 1642, and of the king in the following year, remained there the rest of his life. His noble style, his skill in com- position, his elegance in the grouping and disposition of his figures, and his truly grand and poetic feeling in landscape, en- title him to the first place among painters of the French school. Works : Rebekah and Eliezer, Moses saved from the Waters (seven figures), same subject (ten figures), Moses and Pharaoh's Crown, Moses and Aaron's Rod, Manna in the Desert, Plague of Ash- dod, Judgment of Solomon, Adoration of | Afagi, Holy Family, another Holy Family, Blind Men of Jericho, Woman taken in Adultery, Last Supper, Assumption, Appa- rition of Virgin to St. James, Death of Sap- phira, St. John Baptizing, St. Paul in Ecs- tasy, St. Francis Xavier restoring to Life a Girl, Rape of the Sahines, Camillus and the Schoolmaster, Rescue of Pyrrhus, Mars and Venus, Mars and Rhea Sylvia, Bacchanal (2), Echo and Narcissus, Triumph of Flora, The Concert, Shepherds of Arcadia, Time protecting Truth from Envy and Discord, Portrait of Poussin, Paradise, Ruth and Boaz, Return of the Spies, Deluge, Orpheus and Eurydice, Diogenes throwing away his Tub, Apollo and Daphne, Louvre ; Repose of Holy Family, Avignon Museum ; Rebek- ah and Eliezer, Baptism of Christ, Death 466
