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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.580
People
Nicolas Poussin, French (Les Andelys, France 1594 - 1665 Rome, Italy)
Title
Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1647
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303632

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk and brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
18.5 x 25.5 cm (7 5/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, center, black chalk: 188
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Thomas Dimsdale, London (his mark, L.2426, mount, verso); Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (his mark, L. 2445, lower left); Alan M. Stone, Northampton; Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/ Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louis Haskell Daly Fund, 1984.580

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
1984.580
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Anthony Blunt, "Further Newly Identified Drawings by Poussin and His Followers", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, Summer 1979), vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 119-46, 173-90, pp. 119-22, 142-43
  • Anthony Blunt, The Drawings of Nicolas Poussin, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 1979), p. 71
  • Brigitte Scart, Dessins français du XVIIe siècle, exh. cat., ed. Roseline Bacou, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1984-1985), p. 52
  • 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. 20, pp. 52-54, repr.
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo (Milan, Italy, 1994), vol. I, cat. no. 305, pp. 592-93, repr., vol. II, p. 1211
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1994), cat. no. 305, pp. 592-93
  • Martin Clayton, Poussin: Works on Paper, Drawings from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, exh. cat., Holberton (London, 1995-1996), pp. 132-38
  • James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 224-25
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 30
  • Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, cat. no. 20, p. 27
  • William W. Robinson, "Old Master and Nineteenth-Century Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (2000), vol. 38, no. 3, Autumn, pp. 233-240, p. 237
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XVIIe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2013), pp. 76, 637, fig. 142, repr.
  • 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. 19, repr.; detail repr. p. 71, p. 18

Exhibition History

  • Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998
  • Library Benefactors in the Class of 1952, Houghton Library, Cambridge, 06/03/2002 - 08/30/2002

Subjects and Contexts

  • Collection Highlights
  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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