Modello for a Ceiling: Diana and the Dead Endymion, the Judgment of Paris, and the Death of Adonis

1640/1642 (?)

Nicolas Poussin

Artist, French, 1594 - 1665

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 32 x 31.5 cm (12 5/8 x 12 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1973.28.1

  • 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


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