Prints after Poussin is a pilot project for the Getty Research Institute digital library program that will provide online access to works of art historical interest.
This small, searchable collection of images was drawn from the special collection's holdings of reproductive prints in the Getty Library. The prints that are reproduced on this Web site comprise 35 etchings and engravings after the works of Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665). The engravers include Gérard Audran (1640–1703), Étienne Baudet (ca. 1636–1711), Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (1636–1697), François de Poilly (1622–1693), and Poussin's brother-in-law Jean Dughet (1614–1679).
This site includes a representative range of Poussin's religious and classical subjects: a complete Seven Sacraments (the first set), the lost Sacrifice of Noah, the early Adoration of the Magi and Entombment of Christ, and the late Christ and the Adulteress. A particularly impressive moment in the history of reproductive engraving is represented by Baudet's tour de force rehearsal of the Landscape with funeral of Phocion and The ashes of Phocion collected by his widow.
Banner image: Rinaldo and Armida (detail), Gérard Audran (French, 1640–1703), after Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665), ca. 1684–90, engraving. The Getty Research Institute, 2001.PR.3
