The Entombment

Nicolas Poussin  (French, Les Andelys 1594–1665 Rome)

Date:
ca. 1656–57
Medium:
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions:
3 7/16 x 6 1/8 in. (8.8 x 15.6 cm.)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1961
Accession Number:
61.123.1
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: In pen and brown ink at lower right: "nicolas poussin"

  • Provenance

    Hans M. Calmann

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bean and Turcic 1986.252, Rosenberg and Prat 1994.118

  • References

    Thomas Hoving, Olga Raggio, Jacob Bean, Janet S. Byrne, Colta Ives, Suzanne Boorsch, Mary L. Myers, Weston J. Naef, David Kiehl, The Leether Press, Boston "Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1965-1975" [Accompanied MMA Exhibition: "Patterns of Collecting"]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975.

    Jacob Bean "The Drawings Collection." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. vol. 20, . New York, 1962, fig. no. 11, p. 168, ill.

    Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York Graphic Society, New York, 1964, cat. no. 54, ill.

    Pierre Rosenberg French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections. Toronto, 1972, cat. no. under no. 113, p. 196.

    Walter Friedlaender, Sir Anthony Blunt The Drawings of Nicolas Poussin. Catalogue Raisonné Part Five. Drawings after the Antique. Miscellaneous Drawings. Addenda. 5 vols., London, 1974, cat. no. 401, vol. 5, fig. no. 296, p. 80, ill.

    Jacob Bean (but catalogue not signed) Roman Artists of the 17th Century: Drawings and Prints. Exh. cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2, 1976-January 16, 1977. New York, 1976, n. pag. [15].

    Sir Anthony Blunt The Drawings of Poussin. New Haven and London, 1979, note 12, pp. 21, 188, 194.

    Doris Wild Nicolas Poussin. 2 vols., Zurich, 1980, cat. no. under no. 190.

    Philip Conisbee "New York French Drawings" exhibition review" The Burlington Magazine. 1005, CXXVIII, December. London, 1986, p. 924.

    Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turcic 15th-18th Century French Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1986, cat. no. 252, p. 223, ill.

    Sir Anthony Blunt The Drawings of Poussin. French edition. Poitiers, 1988, note 13, 204, pp. 30, 97.

    James Thompson "Nicolas Poussin". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Winter 1992-1993. New York, 1992-1993, fig. no. 30, pp. 37-38, ill.

    Pierre Rosenberg, Louis-Antoine Prat Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665 Catalogue raisonné des dessins. 2 vols., Milan, 1994, cat. no. 118, vol. I, pp. 220-221, ill.



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