Nicolas Colombel

Nicolas Colombel (c. 1644 – 1717) was a French painter, much influenced by Poussin.

Life

Atalante and Hippomenes, ca. 1680, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Colombel was born at Sotteville, near Rouen, in the Province of Normandy in about 1644. He went to Rome when quite young, and remained there until 1692, forming his style by a study of the works of Raphael and Poussin. His pictures met with considerable success, and a work representing the Saint Hyacinth Saving the Statue of the Virgin from the Enemies of the Name of Christ.

Sir Edmund Head, writing in 1848, described Colombel as "in some sense a master who stood alone among his contemporaries in dignity of feeling, and in the solid character of his art."

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