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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.325
People
Unidentified Artist
After Nicolas Poussin, French (Les Andelys, France 1594 - 1665 Rome, Italy)
Previously attributed to Nicolas Poussin, French (Les Andelys, France 1594 - 1665 Rome, Italy)
Title
Bacchanal
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Bacchanalian Scene
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296172

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash with traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on blue antique laid paper, laid down on light tan antique laid paper, with white paper strips adhered to face
Dimensions
20.4 x 27.3 cm (8 1/16 x 10 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink: Bachanalia

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edmund Schilling, London; Meta and Paul J. Sachs, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965, inv. no. 1965.325

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.325
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Konrad Oberhuber, Poussin, The Early Years in Rome: The Origins of French Classicism, exh. cat., Hudson Hills Press/Kimbell Art Museum (New York and Fort Worth, 1988), cat. no. D133, pp. 176, 333 (as Nicolas Poussin)
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo (Milan, Italy, 1994), vol. II, cat. no. R 224, p. 828, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Poussin, The Early Years in Rome: The Origins of French Classicism, Kimbell Art Museum, 09/24/1988 - 11/27/1988

Verification Level

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