 Étienne de La Vallée Poussin

Étienne de La Vallée Poussin (1735–1802), also called Delavallée-Poussin in certain biographies, was a French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes.Related on his mother's side to the family of the great painter Nicolas Poussin, La Vallée-Poussin was born in Rouen, where he attended the école des Beaux-Arts, under Descamps, and made rapid progress in his studies.