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What was Claude Lorrain’s relationship with Nicolas Poussin?

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Claude Lorrain: Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father — Claude Lorrain *Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father*, oil on canvas by Claude Lorrain, c. 1644; in the Louvre, Paris. 119 × 150 cm.

Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, both of whom were prominent French masters of the ideal landscape working in Rome, maintained a friendly relationship. Despite this personal rapport, there was hardly any artistic contact between the two painters.1