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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.381
People
Attributed to Giacinto Gimignani, Italian (1611 - 1681)
Previously attributed to Nicolas Poussin, French (Les Andelys, France 1594 - 1665 Rome, Italy)
Title
Rebecca and Eleazer
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296723

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash, and white gouache over black chalk on gray-green antique laid paper, squared in black chalk
Dimensions
38.5 x 49.5 cm (15 3/16 x 19 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[P. & D. Colnaghi, London] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.381
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Rebecca stands at the left, her left hand on the rim of the well, her right holding the rope of the paul from which Eleazer drinks, her left foot is crossed over her right and she looks towards the left; Eleazer, his staff resting upon a trough, crouches in front of the well, drinking; figures peer from behind the trees at the right and a camel regards the scene; at the left, women come to and from the fountain; a mountain range is visible in the background.

Publication History

  • Arthur Pope, "The New Fogg Art Museum--The Collection of Drawings", The Arts (July 1927), vol. XII, no. 1, pp. 25-28, pp. 25-28
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. I, cat. no. 254, pp. 133, vol. II, fig. 129, repr.
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo (Milan, Italy, 1994), vol. II, cat. no. 225, p. 828, repr.

Verification Level

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