Skip to content
X Da Vincimuseum prints Español @x_da_Vinci
Winter, or The Flood, by Nicolas Poussin

Winter, or The Flood

Nicolas Poussin, 1664

For now, just to look at

The photograph we have of this work is not sharp enough to print at the quality we want, so we are not selling it for now. We are looking for a better one.

About the work

Artist
Nicolas Poussin
Date
1664
Medium
Oil on canvas (transposed)
Dimensions
1,18 m de altura x 1,60 m de anchura (con marco: 1,55 x 1,98 m; grosor con accesorio: 7,5 cm)
Collection
Musée du Louvre, Paris (Department of Paintings, Room 825, Wing Richelieu)
Reference
XDV-3286

What the museum label doesn't tell you

The English critic Hazlitt called it possibly the finest historical landscape in the world, and the painter John Constable said the work stood 'alone in the world'.

Sources (3)

By the same artist

More by Nicolas Poussin

See all their works
Apollo and Daphne, Nicolas PoussinApollo and DaphneNicolas Poussin, 1625Bacchus and Ariadne, Nicolas PoussinBacchus and AriadneNicolas Poussin, 1625Cephalus and Aurora, Nicolas PoussinCephalus and AuroraNicolas Poussin, 1630From €29Echo and Narcissus, Nicolas PoussinEcho and NarcissusNicolas Poussin, 1630From €29A Dance to the Music of Time, Nicolas PoussinA Dance to the Music of TimeNicolas Poussin, 1636From €29The Baptism of Christ, Nicolas PoussinThe Baptism of ChristNicolas Poussin, 1641From €29The Empire of Flora, Nicolas PoussinThe Empire of FloraNicolas Poussin, 1631From €29The Judgement of Solomon, Nicolas PoussinThe Judgement of SolomonNicolas Poussin, 1649From €29

If you like this one

Explore these themes

Every Sunday, in your inbox

A Painting for Sunday

One painting, the story that doesn't fit on the museum label, and a five-minute read.

Free, one email a week, unsubscribe in one click. Subscribe and get 10% off your first print. The weekly letter is in Spanish for now; an English edition is on its way.