Creusa Carrying the Gods of Troy, c. 1635

Provenance

(Sale, London, Sotheby's, 23 March 1971, lot 107); (Yvonne Tan Bunzl); purchased by NGA, 1971.

Exhibition History

1972

French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th centuries in North American Collections. Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, 1972, no. 149, ill. p. 98, pl. II (color)(cat. by Pierre Rosenberg).

1974

NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 52 (as Rachel and the Idols).

1978

NGA Master Drawings 1978, p. 67 (as Rachel Carrying the Idols).

1989

From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1989, no. 58 (as Creusa Fleeing Troy).

2009

Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 52-53, 277, no. 17 (color).

Bibliography

1987

Brejon de Lavergnée, Barbara. Dessins de Simon Vouet: 1590-1649. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1987: 127, no. XCIX.

1990

McCullagh, Suzanne. "Cleveland, Cambridge, and Ottawa: Seventeenth-Century French drawings." The Burlington Magazine 132 (1990): 234-235.

1990

Rosenberg, Pierre. "Review of From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century." Master Drawings XXVIII (1990): 432-433.

1990

The Burlington Magazine 132 (1990): 79, repro.

1995

Martinez, Benjamin and Jacqueline Block. Visual Forces: An Introduction to Design. 2nd edition, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1995: 131, fig. B.

2010

Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington," The Burlington Magazine 102 (January 2010): 67.

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