Moses Striking the Rock
1687
Artist/publisher, French, 1636 - 1697

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and engraving printed on two sheets of laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 50 × 75.7 cm (19 11/16 × 29 13/16 in.)
plate: 54 × 78.5 cm (21 1/4 × 30 7/8 in.)
sheet: 55.4 × 79.4 cm (21 13/16 × 31 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2022.111.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Wildenstein 1955, no. 19
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Alexandre-Pierre-Francois Robert-Dumesnil [1778-1864], Periers, France, (Lugt 2199/2200). Franz Gawet [1762 or 1765-1847], Vienna, (Lugt 1069). (James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA).
Associated Names
Bibliography
1955
Wildenstein, Georges. Les Graveurs de Poussin au XVIIe siècle. Paris, 1955: no. 19.
Inscriptions
recto: in plate, in image, at lower center: N. Poussin pinxit, et Musaeo Anth.ij Stella parisijs; in plate, in image, at lower right: Claudia Stella Sculp et excudit Cum privil. Regis 1687; in graphite, in later hand, at bottom left: 1 état (rare); verso: at upper left, in later hand, in black ink: F. Gawet 1825 (Lugt 1069)
Markings
none
Watermarks
two-headed eagle surmounted by a fleur-de-lys (left sheet); B heart COLOMBE (right sheet)