All VARIN, Quentin's oil paintings
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Presentation of Christ in the Temple r |
1618-20
Grisaille, 46 x 36,5 cm
Mus??e D??partemental de l'Oise, Beauvais |
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| VARIN, Quentin
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| French Painter, ca.1570-1634
French painter. He was the son of a shoemaker and from 1597 to 1600 was in the papal territory of Avignon, where he worked with a local painter, Pierre Duplan ( fl late 16th century), enrolling also in the local painters' guild. By 1607 he had returned to northern France, and he was married that year at Amiens. In 1612 he was working in the Norman village of Les Andelys, and there he became Nicolas Poussin's first master. For the Gothic church of Notre-Dame, Le Grand Andely, he produced in 1612 a Martyrdom of St Vincent, a Martyrdom of St Clarus and a Regina Coeli (all in situ), the works that provided Poussin with his first contact with contemporary painting. These are the earliest fixed points in Varin's oeuvre, although a ruined Rock of the Philosophers (Rouen, Mus. B.-A.), reminiscent of such late 16th-century French Mannerist painters as Antoine Caron,
. Related Artists to : | Jan Weissenbruch | Paul de Vos | CAVAZZOLA | MASTER of the Polling Panels | EYCK, Jan van | |
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