Modello for a Ceiling: Diana and the Dead Endymion, the Judgment of Paris, and the Death of Adonis
1640/1642 (?)
Artist, French, 1594 - 1665

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 32 x 31.5 cm (12 5/8 x 12 3/8 in.)
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Accession
1973.28.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rosenberg/Prat 1994, Vol. R, no. 1281, State (as not by Poussin)
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(William H. Schab, New York); purchased by NGA, 1973.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1974
NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 53.
1985
Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1985-1986.
1988
Poussin: The Early Years in Rome. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1988, no. D75.
2023
Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.
Bibliography
1974
Blunt, Anthony. "Newly Identified Drawings by Poussin and His Followers." Master Drawings 12(Autumn 1974): 248, note 48.
1988
Cropper, Elizabeth. "Fort Worth: Early Poussin." The Burlington Magazine 130 (December 1988): 961.
1989
Kemp, Wolfgang. "Teleologie der Malerei. Selbstporträt und Zukunftsrefelxion bei Poussin und Velásquez." In Der Künstler über sich in seinem Werk. Internationales Symposium der Bibliotheca Hertziana. Rome, 1989: 416, 432 (repro.).
1990
Goldfarb, Hilliard T. "Poussin: The Early Years in Rome." Master Drawings 28(Spring 1990): 93 (as circle of Domenichino).
1994
Rosenberg, Pierre, and Louis-Antoine Prat. Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1994.
Wikidata ID
Q64618497