Extreme Unction

c. 1650

Jean Dughet

Artist, French, 1614 - 1676

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with engraving on two sheets of laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 51.8 × 66.2 cm (20 3/8 × 26 1/16 in.) trimmed to platemark
    mount: 62.4 × 78.6 cm (24 9/16 × 30 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2020.102.5

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 image: Nic Poussin Inventor; lower center in image: 5o; lower right in pen and ink: 67.

Watermarks

single-encircled anchor surmounted by a star and flanked by a ‘C’ or ‘G’ and ‘A’ and single-encircled anchor surmounted by a star and flanked by a ‘C’ or ‘G’ and ‘A’

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