The historic gallery of portraits and paintings: and biographical review : containing a brief account of the lives of the moost celebrated men, in every age and country : and graphic imitations of the fines specimens of the arts, ancient and modern : with remarks, critical and explanatory (Band 6) (London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810)

STATUE OF NICHOLAS POUSSIN.

JULIEN.
This statue in marble, of the proportion of six feet,
is placed in the Hall of the Institute, at Paris. It is
considered one of the best productions of an artist, who,
by his other works, has reflected honour on French
sculpture.
M. Lebreton, perpetual secretary of the fine arts in
the Institute, delivered an admirable eulogium on the
merits of this excellent statuary, who died in the month
of December, 1804, in his seventy-fourth year. The
limits of this publication not permitting us to report the
whole of his discourse, we must confine ourselves to the
following passage, which has a reference to the subject
before us.
“ M. Julien had undertaken the statue of Poussin,
but peculiar circumstances, far from exciting him to other
labours, compelled him so slowly to execute this work,
that he considered it as his last production. He ap-
peared desirous of living only to finish it. Nature, in a
manner, but granted him his request. He died three
months after its exhibition at the Louvre.
i
“ The subject presented two considerable difficulties ;
one, so common to all statuaries—the stiffness of the
modern costume: the other, to give an exact resemblance