1984.609: Camillus and the School Master of Falerii

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1984.609

People

Nicolas Poussin, French (Les Andelys, France 1594 - 1665 Rome, Italy)

Title

Camillus and the School Master of Falerii

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1637

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294513

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink over graphite with touches of red chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite, laid down on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

17.6 x 17.8 cm (6 15/16 x 7 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Verso, graphite: Tableau du Louvre no 725 / Camille livre le maitre d'école des / Falisques aux écoliers / peint en 1637 / Poussin 1594-1665 / Croquis du Poussin pour son tableau qui est / au Louvre les personnages contournés tout retracés a l'encre

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles Martine; Pierre-Olivier Dubaut (his mark, L.2103b, lower left); L. Prejger, Paris; Neal Fiertag, Paris and New York (as of 1983); Seiden and Cuevas, Inc., New York; Fogg Art Museum, 1984, inv. no. 1984.609

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louise Haskell Daly Fund

Accession Year

1984

Object Number

1984.609

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Doris Wild, Nicolas Poussin: Leben, Werk, Exkurse, Orell Füssli Verlag (Zurich, 1980), vol. II, under cat. nos. 65, 78
• Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo (Milan, Italy, 1994), vol. I, cat. no. 126, pp. 234-35, repr., vol. II, p. 1211

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