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image of The Baptism of Christ
Nicolas Poussin (artist)
French, 1594 - 1665
The Baptism of Christ, 1641/1642
oil on canvas
Overall: 95.5 x 121 cm (37 5/8 x 47 5/8 in.) framed: 123.8 x 149.9 x 14 cm (48 3/4 x 59 x 5 1/2 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1946.7.14
From the Tour: Seventeenth-Century French Painting
Object 7 of 8

1945Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 154, repro.
1946Frankfurter, Alfred M. Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1946: 55, repro.
1952Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 112, color repro.
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 338, repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 315, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 105
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:288, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 93, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 274, repro.
1977Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 271-274, fig. 250.
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 72, pl. 58, color repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 317, no. 417, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 318, repro.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 163, repro.

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