The Musée Nicolas Poussin is a museum in
Andelys in
France
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. It is housed in an 18th-century house and named after the painter
Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythologic ...
, born in the hamlet of Villers, near Andelys, in 1594. Its collections include 18th-century furniture, religious objects, window glass, a 3rd-century Gallo-Roman mosaic, 19th- and 20th-century paintings and a painting of
Coriolanus
''Coriolanus'' ( or ) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus. Shakespeare worked on it during the same ...
by Poussin himself.
See also
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List of single-artist museums
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See also
* :Museums devoted to one artist
* List of art museums
* List of most visited art mu ...
Sources
Official Musée Nicolas Poussin website€”
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Art museums and galleries in France
Biographical museums in France
Museums in Eure
Archaeological museums in France
History museums in France
Museums devoted to one artist