Buchanan, William: Memoirs of painting: with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the great masters into England since the French Revolution (Band 1) (London: Ackermann, 1824)

THE FRENCH SCHOOL.

This school has derived its principal importance
from the works of Nicholas Poussin, of Claude de
Lorraine, of Le Sueur, and Le Brun.
The Orleans collection, so rich in the works of
the Italian masters, possessed but very few ex-
amples of its own native school. It is true that
much good taste and discrimination were shown
in the selections which were made, as it possessed
some of the finest pictures of their most classical
painter, Nicholas Poussin ; but it appears singular
that the works of so eminent a painter as Claude de
Lorraine should not have found a place in this col-
lection : at least, no example of importance of that
master was in this collection at the period of its
arrival in England, nor does it appear from the
book of engravings of this gallery, that such had
ever been in it.
NICHOLAS POUSSIN.
Born in 1594.
Died 1665, aged 71.
This distinguished painter, connoisseur, and
classical scholar, was born at Andily in Nor-