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Poussin plays an outsize role in a number of major works that respond to the French Baroque classicist’s elaborate paintings, which are based on ancient religious and mythological stories.

But in his art, Giacometti was exacting and fastidious, bowing before a classical impulse that ran from ancient Egypt and archaic Greece through the classical French tradition, from Poussin to Cézanne and Matisse.

This is exemplified in this superb show by the lunging bodies and brushwork in his copy of a Poussin.

Thompson often quotes inspirations like Goya and Poussin, but his inimitable style is marked by silhouetted figures in bright, solid colors, placed in often mysterious scenarios in pastoral settings.

But the works are also infused with the atmosphere of tenderness and religiosity in the Renaissance Italians and in Poussin.