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Study of a Palm Tree (recto); Mountain Landscape (verso)

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

Date:
ca. 1635–40
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)
Dimensions:
8 1/16 x 10 3/16 in. (20.5 x 25.8 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift and Van Day Truex and Harry G. Sperling Funds, 2002
Accession Number:
2002.39a, b

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  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: In pen and brown ink at lower left of recto: "N. Poussin"

    Marking: Inscribed in pen and brown ink at lower right (recto), the collector's mark of Paul Fréart de Chantelou (1609-1694), Lugt 735.

  • Provenance

    Paul Fréart de Chantelou (1609–1694); Roland Fréart Sieur de Chambray (French, 1606–1676); Private Collection, Lausanne ; Vendor: Galerie de Bayser, Paris

  • References

    "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin" Recent Acquisitions: A Selection: 2001-2002. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 2, 60, Fall 2002, pp. 20-1, ill.

    Dominique Cordellier, Pierre Rosenberg, Peter Märker Dessins Français du Musée de Darmstadt XVIe, XVIIe, et XVIIIe Siècles Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt Graphische Sammlung. Montreuil, 2007, cat. no. under no. 126, fig. no. 1, p. 184, ill.

    Richard Verdi "Exhibition Reviews: Poussin and Nature, Bilbao and New York" Burlington Magazine. London, April 2008, fig. no. 101, p. 284, ill.



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