Road along a Winding River, c. 1648?

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink, squared in black chalk, on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 10.7 x 16.5 cm (4 3/16 x 6 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George Baer

Catalogue Raisonné

Rosenberg/Prat 1994, no. 365

Accession Number

1986.96.2

Artists / Makers

Nicolas Poussin (artist) French, 1594 - 1665

Image Use

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Inscription

verso in pen and brown ink, fragmentary letter written by the artist

Provenance

Pierre Jean Mariette (Lugt 1852), Paris (his sale, Paris, 15 November 1775-30 January 1776, no. 250); Maurice Marignane (Lugt 1872), Paris and Marseille; Hans M. Calmann [1899-1982], London; Curtis O. Baer [1898-1976], Atlanta; by descent to Dr. and Mrs. George O. Baer; gift to NGA, 1986.

Associated Names

Baer, Curtis O.
Baer, George M., Dr. and Mrs.
Calmann, Hans M.
Mariette, Pierre-Jean
Marignane, Maurice de

Exhibition History

1958: Drawings from the Collection of Curtis O. Baer. The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1958, no. 37 (cat. by Agnes Mongan).

1985: Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso, the Curtis O. Baer Collection, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1985, no. 55 (cat. by Eric M. Zafran).

1994: Nicolas Poussin, Galeries nationales d'Exposition du Grand Palais, Paris, 1994, no. 232.

2007: Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions. Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. New York, 2007-2008, no. 60 (Pierre Rosenberg, Keith Christiansen, et al.).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 54-55, 277, no. 18 (color).

Bibliography

1939: Friedlaender, Walter, and Anthony Blunt, eds. The Drawings of Nicolas Poussin: Catalogue raisonné. 5 vols. London, 1939-1974: 4(1963):no. 290 (recto), no. 250 (verso), pls. 203, 222.

1960: Shearman, John. "Les Dessins de Paysages de Poussin." In Actes du Colloque Nicolas Poussin. Vol. 1. Paris, 1960: 183.

1969: Badt, K. Die Kunst des Nicolas Poussin. Cologne, 1969: 1:253.

1994: Rosenberg, Pierre, and Louis-Antoine Prat. Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1994, 1: xx, 680, under no. 351, no. 365.

1996: Clayton, Martin. Review of Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Burlington Magazine 138, no. 1120 (July 1996): 469.