Moses Striking the Rock, 1687

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Medium

etching and engraving printed on two sheets of laid paper

Dimensions

image: 50 × 75.7 cm (19 11/16 × 29 13/16 in.)
plate: 54 × 78.5 cm (21 1/4 × 30 7/8 in.)

sheet: 55.4 × 79.4 cm (21 13/16 × 31 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Wildenstein 1955, no. 19

Accession Number

2022.111.1

Artists / Makers

Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (artist/publisher) French, 1636 - 1697

Nicolas Poussin (artist after) French, 1594 - 1665

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, in image, at lower center: N. Poussin pinxit, et Musaeo Anth.ij Stella parisijs; in plate, in image, at lower right: Claudia Stella Sculp et excudit Cum privil. Regis 1687; in graphite, in later hand, at bottom left: 1 état (rare); verso: at upper left, in later hand, in black ink: F. Gawet 1825 (Lugt 1069)

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Alexandre-Pierre-Francois Robert-Dumesnil [1778-1864], Periers, France, (Lugt 2199/2200). Franz Gawet [1762 or 1765-1847], Vienna, (Lugt 1069). (James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA).

Associated Names

Bergquist, James A., Mr.
Gawet, Franz
Robert-Dumesnil, Alexandre-Pierre-François

Bibliography

1955: Wildenstein, Georges. Les Graveurs de Poussin au XVIIe siècle. Paris, 1955: no. 19.