The Abduction of the Sabine WomenNicolas Poussin (1594–1665) · probably 1633–34The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0) · the museum’s record
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The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin, 1594–1665, painted probably 1633–34
Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and released as Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0). It is here to paint after: give us your own line and the painters take its brushwork, its palette and its light, and none of its subject.
A print of the painting itself, up to 24 × 36 inches. Nothing larger, because it would arrive soft.
- Painting after it
- The painters take its handling, its surface and its light. Your line, or your photograph, stays the subject.
- The credit
- Every painting made after it carries “after Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), The Abduction of the Sabine Women, The Metropolitan Museum of Art” on its plaque, and on the share page.
- The licence
- Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it. The credit travels with it everywhere we show it, and it is never enlarged.



