Moyses infantulus in Carecto ripae Nili a parentibus expositus (Baby Moses Placed in the Nile by his Parents)

1672

Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella

Artist/publisher, French, 1636 - 1697

Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella, after Nicolas Poussin

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving printed on two sheets of laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 54.4 × 74.6 cm (21 7/16 × 29 3/8 in.)
    plate: 56.4 × 75.3 cm (22 3/16 × 29 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 57.4 × 77 cm (22 5/8 × 30 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2022.111.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wildenstein 1955, no. 9

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alexandre-Pierre-Francois Robert-Dumesnil [1778-1864], Periers, France, (Lugt 2199/2200). (James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA).

Associated Names

Bibliography

1955

  • Wildenstein, Georges. Les Graveurs de Poussin au XVIIe siècle. Paris, 1955: no. 9

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, below image, at left: N. poussin pinxit ex musaeo Ant.ij Stella parisijs; in plate, below image, at center: Moyses infantulus in Carecto ripae Nili a parentibus expositus, exod. cap. 2; in plate, below image, at right: Claudia Stella Sculp. et excud. cum Privil. Regis 1672; in brown ink, in later hand, at bottom left: de la vente de M.r Regnault; verso: none

Markings

none

Watermarks

bird with outstretched wings, a coat-of-arms on its breast (both sheets)

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