He had left in France some of his masterpieces, models of that, new, independent, and conscientious art, faithfully studied from nature in all its Italian grandeur, and from the treasures of the antique.

"How did you arrive at such perfection ?" people would ask Le Poussin.

"By neglecting nothing," the painter would reply.

In the same way Newton was soon to discover the great laws of the physical world, by always thinking thereon." [Illustration: Le Poussin and Claude Lorrain----675] During Le Poussin's stay at Paris he had taken as a pupil Eustache Lesueur, who had been trained in the studio of Simon Vouet, but had been struck from the first with the incomparable genius and proud independence of the master sent to him by fate.

Alone he had supported Le Poussin in his struggle against the envious; alone he entered upon the road which revealed itself to him whilst he studied under Le Poussin.