me one of them in his modes of thought.

[Illustration: FIG. 67.--ARCADIAN SHEPHERDS. _Poussin._]

He was very poor when he first went to Rome; but he worked hard, and began
to be known and to receive orders for pictures. Louis XIII. heard of
Poussin, and invited him to Paris, where he gave him apartments in the
Tuileries. But the artist longed to return to Rome, and made a plea of
going for his wife. Soon after he left, Louis died, and Poussin never
returned to France. Poussin was always busy; but he asked such moderate
prices that he was never rich, and, when a great man pitied the artist
because he had so few servants, Poussin pitied him in return for having so
many. His portrait painted by himself is in the Louvre, where are many of
his mythological pictures. His love for the classic manner makes these
subjects his best works. His paintings are seen in many European
galleries.

CLAUDE LORRAINE (1600-1682), whose real name was Claude Gelee, was born in
Champagne in Lorraine. His parents were very poor, and died when he was
still young: he was apprenticed to a pastry-cook, and so travelled to Rome
as servant to some young gentlemen. Not long after his arrival he engaged
himself to the painter Agostino Tassi, for whom he cooked, and mixed
colors. After a time he himself began to paint. Nature was his teacher; he
studied her with unchanging devotion; he knew all her changes, and was in
the habit of sitting for a whole day watching one scene, so that he could
paint from memory its different aspects at the various hours of the day.
His works brought him into notice when he was still young. He received
many orders, and when about twenty-seven years old some pictures he
painted for Pope Urban VIII. established his fame as an artist of high
rank. His character was above reproach, and his feelings were as tender as
many of his pictures. He was attractive in person, though his face was
grave in its expression. It would seem that he should have left a large
fortune, but he did not. This was partly because he suffered much from
gout, and was often unable to paint; but a better reason probably is that
he gave so much to his needy relations that he could not save large sums.

Claude Lorraine has been called the prince and poet of landscape painters.
Luebke, the German art writer, praises him very much, and his praise is
more valuable than it would be if it came from one of Claude's own
countrymen. He says: "Far more profoundly t