Abstract
The biased image of Poussin rendered by Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain (1756-1842) Under the Consulate and the Empire, special attention was focused on Nicolas Poussin. At the head of the French School and a model of classicism, he was at the source of numerous studies and publications, which reached a climax with the tendentious edition of the painter’s letters by Quatremère de Quincy in 1824. A little known episode of this reception concerns an outstanding scholar of the time, artist, connoisseur and theorist Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain. The article describes the strategy used by Gault and his contemporaries to reshape the image of the great painter and turn him into the model for the modern French School.
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