1941.13: Presentation in the Temple

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1941.13

People

Charles Mellin, French (Nancy c. 1600 - 1649 Rome)
Previously attributed to Nicolas Poussin, French (Les Andelys, France 1594 - 1665 Rome, Italy)

Title

Presentation in the Temple

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1645

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297839

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink

Dimensions

15.9 x 12.3 cm (6 1/4 x 4 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: none
• watermark: Circle [fragmentary]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Goodman-Walker, Boston; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Friends of Art, Archeology and Music at Harvard Fund, 1941.13

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Friends of Art, Archaeology and Music at Harvard Fund

Accession Year

1941

Object Number

1941.13

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), pl. 304
• Agnes Mongan, ed., One Hundred Master Drawings, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1949), p. 78 (as Nicolas Poussin)
• Agnes Mongan, French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, 1951), cat. no. 14, n.p.
• Agnes Mongan, De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins français des collections américaines, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, 1958), cat. no. 28, n.p.
• Agnes Mongan, Van Clouet tot Matisse: tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties, exh. cat., Museum Boymans (Rotterdam, 1958), cat. no. 28, n.p.
• Agnes Mongan, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1959), cat. no. 28, p. 42
• Jacques Thuillier, Poussin et ses premiers compagnons français à Rome (Paris, 1960), p. 82-n.38 (as Charles Mellin)
• Stephen Longstreet, The Drawings of Poussin, Borden Publishing Company (Los Angeles, 1963), n.p.
• Doris Wild, "Charles Mellin ou Nicolas Poussin: les scènes mythologiques", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1967), vol. 69, no. 1176, January, pp. 3-44, pp. 12, 36, 37
• 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), p. 182
• Anthony Blunt, "The Complete Poussin: Review of "Nicolas Poussin: l'opera completa", The Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd. (London, 1974), vol. 116, no. 861, December, pp. 760-63, cat. no. B 53 (as Poussin or an imitator)
• Doris Wild, Nicolas Poussin: Leben, Wek, Exkurse, Orell Füssli Verlag (Zurich, 1980)
• Doris Wild, Nicolas Poussin: Leben, Werk, Exkurse, Orell Füssli Verlag (Zurich, 1980), vol. 1, pp. 195-96, vol. 2, pp. 200, 234 (as Mellin)
• Jacques Thuillier, "Charles Mellin 'très excellent peintre'" , Collection de l'École Française de Rome (1 January 1981), vol. 52, pp. 583-684, pp. 618, 666
• Jacques Thuillier, Claude Lorrain e i pittori lorenesi in Italia nel XVII secolo, exh. cat., De Luca (Rome, 1982), pp. 266-67
• George R. Goldner, Lee Hendrix, Nicholas Turner, and Carol Plazzotta, European Drawings: Catalogue of the Collections, J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, 1987-2001), vol. 1, p. 186 (as Poussin or an imitator)
• Hilliard T. Goldfarb, From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth-Century, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, 1989), cat. no. 22, pp. 57-58, repr. (as Poussin)
• Pierre Rosenberg, Maîtres français, 1550-1800: dessins de la donation Mathias Polakovits à l’École des Beaux-Arts, exh. cat., ed. Natalie Coural, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1989), p. 86 (as Mellin)
• Pierre Rosenberg, "Review: From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawings from the Seventeenth Century", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 1990), vol. 28, no. 4, p. 432, p. 432
• Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo (Milan, Italy, 1994), vol. 2, cat. no. R 222, pp. 828-29
• Emmanuelle Brugerolles and David Guillet, ed., Poussin, Claude, and Their World: Seventeenth-Century French Drawings from the École des Beaux-Arts, exh. cat., Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts and The Frick Collection (Paris and New York, 2001-2002), pp. 184-86
• Hilliard T. Goldfarb, "Review: Le dessin en France au XVIIe siècle dans les collections de l’École des Beaux-Arts", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2003), vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 404-407, p. 406
• Philippe Malgouyres, Charles Mellin: un Lorrain entre Rome et Naples, exh. cat., Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2007), cat. no. D44, pp. 197, 199, 291
• Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XVIIe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2013), pp. 97, 638
• Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New York, January 28, 2015), p. 83
• Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 21, repr.

Exhibition History

• French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/15/1951 - 09/30/1951
• French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 07/31/1958 - 09/28/1958; Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 10/24/1958 - 01/02/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02/03/1959 - 03/15/1959
• The Drawing, Pomona College Gallery, 09/22/1960 - 10/16/1960
• From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawings from the 17th Century, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 12/13/1989 - 01/28/1990; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/1990 - 04/08/1990; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 05/06/1990 - 06/17/1990

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