The Gathering of Manna
before 1706
Printmaker, French, 1646 - 1706
Artist, French, 1594 - 1665
Etienne Gantrel, after Nicolas Poussin
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 58.5 × 76.4 cm (23 1/16 × 30 1/16 in.)
sheet: 62.9 × 86 cm (24 3/4 × 33 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2024.83.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Philip Conisbee and Faya Causey, Washington, DC, purchased in London before 1986; gift to NGA, 2024
Associated Names
Inscriptions
recto: in plate, in image, at lower center: Poussin Pinxit Gantrel C. P. Regis; at bottom right in brown ink in eighteenth-century hand: [paraph] / 17.; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: [indecipherable] "chez J. Mariette," / [indecipherable _ " _ _ " _ [indecipherable]
Markings
none