Jean-Luc Martinez, the new director of the Louvre, has decided to replace the Velasquez exhibition planned for 2015 by an exhibition on Nicolas Poussin, of which the Louvre owns a great number of works.
For the record, the last great exhibition dedicated to Poussin took place in Paris in 1994, at the Grand Palais. And at the Louvre… in 1960.
Further reading:
• La Croix article (in French): Change of strategy at the Louvre museum