Landscape with a Calm (Un Tem[p]s calme et serein)

1650–1651

Current Collection

Los Angeles, United States

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 97 × 131 cm
Status: In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID: C24-136707

In the late 1640s and early 1650s, at the height of his artistic maturity, Nicolas Poussin turned from historical narrative to landscape painting. *Landscape with a Calm* does not illustrate a story but rather evokes a mood. The ordered composition and clear, golden light contribute to *A Calm's* utter tranquility, while glowing, gem-like colors and fluid paint strokes enliven this scene of benevolent nature. Poussin's sketching campaigns in the Roman countryside with his friend and fellow landscape painter Claude Lorrain account, in part, for its fresh observation of cloud-scattered sky and grazing goats. Poussin painted a pendant to this painting, *Landscape with a Storm,* now in a museum in Rouen. Together their contrasting weather effects embody nature's changing and unpredictable relationship with man. Poussin painted these works for the Parisian merchant Jean Pointel, a friend and a great collector of his landscape paintings.

Provenance

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Registry history

1650–1651 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum

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