Pierre Rosenberg, the 89-year-old honorary president-director of the Louvre, is set to release a definitive four-volume catalogue raisonné of the works of Nicolas Poussin. This monumental publication, weighing eight kilograms, represents over sixty years of scholarship and aims to provide a comprehensive update to the field, addressing previous research by figures such as Anthony Blunt and Louis Marin.
Rosenberg’s career is inextricably linked to the modernization of the Louvre, having overseen the museum during the transformative era of the I.M. Pei pyramid. As a leading authority on 17th and 18th-century French art, his new catalogue seeks to make the intellectually demanding works of Poussin more accessible and rigorously documented for a new generation of scholars and museum-goers.