A FRENCH BRONZE BUST OF NICOLAS POUSSIN, the artist's head turned slightly to dexter, a cloak draped over his right shoulder, on a stepped rectangular marble base inset with a bronze plaque inscribed N. POUSSIN. XVIIE. SIÈCLE. some wear to patination, 19th Century

This bust of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) mounted on a stepped pedestal, in the Grecian manner, and bearing a tablet inscribed with the French artist's name and century, would have formed part of a garniture emblematic of the Arts and Sciences symptomatic of the 19th Century veneration of heroes and worthies