Figures Bathing in a Stream

Nicolas Poussin

Artist, French, 1594 - 1665

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 23.8 x 18.2 cm (9 3/8 x 7 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1973.21.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rosenberg/Prat 1994, Vol. R, no. 1280, State (as not by Poussin)


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C.G. Boerner, Dusseldorf); (Baskett and Day, London); purchased by NGA, 1973.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • C.G. Boerner, Dusseldorf, 1971, no. 37 (as Abraham Begeyn).

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions, 1974, 209.

1988

  • Poussin. The Early Years in Rome. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1988, D94.

Bibliography

1974

  • Blunt, Anthony. "Newly Identified Drawings by Poussin and his Followers." Master Drawings. 12 (Autumn 1974): 248, nt. 48.

1990

  • Goldfarb, Hilliard T. "Poussin: The Early Years in Rome." Master Drawings 28 (Spring 1990): 93.

1994

  • Rosenberg, Pierre, and Louis-Antoine Prat. Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1994.

Inscriptions

upper left: 69

Wikidata ID

Q64536894


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