Smith, John: A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters: in which is included a short biographical notice of the artists, with a copious description of their principal pictures : a statement of the prices at which such pictures have been sold at public sales on the continent and in England; a reference the the galleries and private collections in which a large portion are at present; and the names of the artists by whom they have been engraved; to which is added, a brief notice of the scholars & imitators of the great masters of the above schools (Part 8) (London: Smith and Son, 1837)

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THE LIFE OF

Dom.
Nic. Pussino Gallo
Pictori sues eetatis primario
Qui Artem
Dum pertinaci studio prosequitur
Brevi assequutus, postea vicit
Naturum
Dum Linearum compendio contrabit
Seipsa Majorem expressit
Eamdem
Dum nova optices industria
Ordini lucique restituit
Seipsa fecit Illustriorem
Illam
Graecis, Itaiisque imitari
Soli Pussino superare datem
Obiit in urbe eeterna xiv Kai. Dec.
M.D.C.LXV. annos natus LXXI
Ad Santi Laurentii in Lucina Sepultus
Claudius Nicasuis Divionensis
Regii Sacelli Canonicus
Dum Amico singulari parentaret
Veteris amicitise memor
Monumentum hoc posuit sere perennius.

Poussin, according to a testament made two months
prior to his decease, after desiring that his funeral
should be conducted in the plainest manner, bequeaths
the sum of about fisty thousand francs in the following
manner. To the relations of his wife, for whom he
always entertained a sincere friendship, between five
and six thousand crowns ; one thousand crowns to
Frances le Tellier, one of his nieces at Andely; and he
named Jean le Tellier, his nephew, the residuary legatee.
Poussin was a man of fine proportions and above
the ordinary height; his countenance was well formed,