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Updated: May 17, 2025
We find him, in a letter addressed to M. de Chantilon, requesting that a painting which he sent might not be placed in the same room with one of Raphael's 'lest the contrast might ruin mine, and cause whatever little beauty it has to vanish. He was an ardent admirer of Domenichino, and copied many of his works.
Many years afterwards, Poussin, in speaking of this period, said to Chantilon: 'I have sometimes gone to bed without having tasted food since the morning, not because I had no means of paying at a hostel although that also has befallen me at times but because, after having my soul filled with the glorious beauty of ancient art, I could not endure to mingle in the low, sordid scenes of a cheap eating-house.
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