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POUSSIN, Nicolas: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, 1650
Oil on canvas
98 × 74 cm
Paris, France

Rendered in warm earth tones, Poussin presents himself with austere dignity, hand gesturing toward classical columns. This self-portrait defines French Baroque restraint, establishing the artist as intellectual rather than virtuoso—a pivotal statement of artistic identity and neoclassical values.

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