Jean Pointel is a French banker and silk merchant from Lyon, based in Paris, one of the greatest collectors of Nicolas Poussin.
Poussin paints for Pointel his Moses saved from the water (1647, Louvre Museum), Eliezer and Rebecca (1648, Louvre Museum), The Judgement of Solomon (1649, Louvre Museum), the Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice (1650-53, Louvre Museum) and the “other” self-portrait, today in Berlin, sent the same year – 1650 – but less known than the Louvre one addressed to Chantelou.
Nicolas Poussin trusts Pointel and his partner Jacques Serisier (or Cérisiers) enough to choose them for the management of his earnings during his parisian stay, and later as his executors.
His collection primarily comprised works by Poussin; no less than 21 paintings and 80 drawings.