Moyses infantulus in Carecto ripae Nili a parentibus expositus (Baby Moses Placed in the Nile by his Parents), 1672

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Medium

etching and engraving printed on two sheets of laid paper

Dimensions

image: 54.4 × 74.6 cm (21 7/16 × 29 3/8 in.)
plate: 56.4 × 75.3 cm (22 3/16 × 29 5/8 in.)

sheet: 57.4 × 77 cm (22 5/8 × 30 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Wildenstein 1955, no. 9

Accession Number

2022.111.2

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, below image, at left: N. poussin pinxit ex musaeo Ant.ij Stella parisijs; in plate, below image, at center: Moyses infantulus in Carecto ripae Nili a parentibus expositus, exod. cap. 2; in plate, below image, at right: Claudia Stella Sculp. et excud. cum Privil. Regis 1672; in brown ink, in later hand, at bottom left: de la vente de M.r Regnault; verso: none

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Alexandre-Pierre-Francois Robert-Dumesnil [1778-1864], Periers, France, (Lugt 2199/2200). (James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA).

Associated Names

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

Bibliography

1955: Wildenstein, Georges. Les Graveurs de Poussin au XVIIe siècle. Paris, 1955: no. 9