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Nicolas Poussin

Moses Driving the Sheperds from the Well, ca. 1647

Description

Maker

  • Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665, French

Title

Moses Driving the Sheperds from the Well

Year

ca. 1647

Medium

Pen and brown ink and wash, and chalk over black chalk over beige laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • wash technique,
  • chalk,
  • pen and ink

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

16.5 x 16.3 cm (6 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed on verso, in pen and ink in 19th-century hand: Le Poussin / Collection Chennevieres"

Stamped with collector's mark of Thomas Hudson (1701-1779; Lugt 2432); Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830; Lugt 2445); of Philippe de Chennevières (1820-1899; Lugt 2073); of an unidentified collector (sometimes wrongly as Guillaume Huber; Lugt 1160).

Stamped on the verso with collector's mark of Teodor de Wyzewa (1862-1917; Lugt 2471); and of Émile Maurice Marignane (1879-1956; Lugt 1872).

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

59.020

Projects & Publications

Publications

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Treasures on Paper

June 13 - August 19, 1989

Old Master Drawings

September 2 - October 16, 1983

Use

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