Confirmation
c. 1650
Artist, French, 1614 - 1676

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching with engraving on two sheets of laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 51.7 × 66.9 cm (20 3/8 × 26 5/16 in.) trimmed to platemark
mount: 62 × 80.4 cm (24 7/16 × 31 5/8 in.) -
Accession
2020.102.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 7-8 June 1996, no. 5332, prints from a dilapidated album); (James Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA, 1996); purchased by NGA, 2020.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: Nic. Poussin Inventor; lower center in place: 2o; lower right in pen and ink: 64
Watermarks
shield (left) and double-encircled fleur-de-lys surmounted by an ‘O’ or ‘G’ (right)