Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors And Architects And Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)
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Old as he was, Ifrequently saw him among the ruins of ancient Rome, out in the Campagna, or along the banks of the Tyber, sketching a scene which had pleasedhim; and I often met him with his handkerchief full of stones, moss, orflowers, which he carried home, that he might copy them exactly fromnature. One day I asked him, how he had attained to such a degree ofperfection as to have gained so high a rank among the great painters ofItaly? He answered, '_I have neglected nothing!_'" POUSSIN'S OLD... AGE. The genius of Poussin seems to have gained vigor with age. Nearly hislast works, which were begun in 1660, and sent to Paris 1664, were thefour pictures, allegorical of the seasons, which he painted for the Ducde Richelieu. He chose the terrestrial paradise, in all the freshness ofcreation, to designate spring. The beautiful story of Boaz and Ruthformed the subject of summer. Autumn was aptly pictured, in the twoIsraelites bearing the bunch of grapes from the Promised Land. But themasterpiece was Winter, represented in the Deluge.
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