Une appropriation de l’image de Poussin sous le Consulat et l’Empire : Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain (1756-1842)
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2002
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Camilla Murgia, « Une appropriation de l’image de Poussin sous le Consulat et l’Empire : Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain (1756-1842) », Histoire de l'art (documents), ID : 10.3406/hista.2002.2967
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The biased image of Poussin rendered by Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain (1756-1842) Under the Consulate and the Empire, special attention was focused on Nicolas Poussin. At the head of the French School and a model of classicism, he was at the source of numerous studies and publications, which reached a climax with the tendentious edition of the painter’s letters by Quatremère de Quincy in 1824. A little known episode of this reception concerns an outstanding scholar of the time, artist, connoisseur and theorist Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain. The article describes the strategy used by Gault and his contemporaries to reshape the image of the great painter and turn him into the model for the modern French School.
