1967.69: Five Seated Nymphs

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1967.69

People

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

Title

Five Seated Nymphs

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1635-1640

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296253

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash with traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, corners made up

Dimensions

irregular: 11.1 x 11.9 cm (4 3/8 x 4 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Verso, black chalk: Mr Poussin. / Vente Guigou Maurel de Marseille / 12 9bre ["bre" in superscript] 77 / 195 / D 30325
• inscription: Verso, blue chalk: 388

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Maximin Maurel, Marseille; his sale, Paris, Drouot, 12 November 1877, lot 104; Charles-Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel, Paris and Bellême (his mark, L.2073, lower left, black ink); his sale, Paris, Drouot, 4-7 April 1900, part of lot 417 or 418; Louis Deglatigny (his mark, L.1768a, lower left, red ink); his sale, Paris, 14-15 June 1937, lot 192; Siegfried Schwarz, New York (as of 1953); sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 December 1967, lot 10, sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1967, inv. no. 1967.79

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund

Accession Year

1967

Object Number

1967.69

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Walter Friedlaender, ed., The Drawings of Nicolas Poussin, The Warburg Institute (London, England, 1939-1974), vol. III, cat. no. 234, pp. 44-45, pl. 174 repr.
• Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections / Dessins français du 17ème & du 18ème siècles des collections américaines, exh. cat., Secker & Warburg (London, 1972-1973), cat. no. 113, pp. 27, 196-97, pl. 17, repr.
• Walter Friedlaender and Anthony Blunt, The Drawings of Nicolas Poussin: Catalogue Raisonné, The Warburg Institute (London, 1974), vol. V, p. 117
• Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 61, n.p., pl. 61, repr.
• Doris Wild, Nicolas Poussin: Leben, Werk, Exkurse, Orell Füssli Verlag (Zurich, 1980), vol. II, under cat. no. 57
• Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo (Milan, Italy, 1994), vol. I, cat. no. 133, pp. 258-59, repr., vol. II, p. 1211
• Louis-Antoine Prat, "The Marquis de Chennevières and His Collection of French Drawings", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, Summer 2000), vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 117-23, pp. 118-19, fig. 2, repr.
• Louis-Antoine Prat, "Philippe de Chenevières, Nélie Jacquemart-André et Jeffrey E. Horvitz: trois collections de dessins d'artistes français", ed. Nicolas Sainte Fare Garnot, École du Louvre (Paris, 2003), p. 25, fig. 5, repr.
• Louis-Antoine Prat and Laurence Lhinares, La collection Chennevieres: quatre siècles de dessins français, Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2007), cat. no. 13, pp. 218, 761, repr.

Exhibition History

• A Tribute to John Coolidge: Purchases of Two Decades, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/28/1968 - 07/31/1968
• French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 09/02/1972 - 10/15/1972; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 11/03/1972 - 12/17/1972; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 01/12/1973 - 03/11/1973; New York Cultural Center, New York, 04/04/1973 - 05/13/1973
• European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979

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