Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple

Inscription: Pen and brown ink, lower left: "Poussin"

On verso, at upper center in graphite: "CHARLES MELLIN [underlined]/ Presentation au Temple (1643)/ Tableau le plus célèbre de l'artiste/ conservé à Naples et devenir vers/ 1757/ 12.000"

On verso, in center in graphite: "- une autre etude (attribué/ à Poussin) est conservée au/ Fogg art museum"

On verso, at lower left in blue ink (ball point pen): "proprieté à Hubert Marignan/ [illegible]"

Marking: At lower right of recto, collector's mark of Hubert Marignane, H within an M (not in Lugt). On verso, stamped in black, collector's mark of Hubert Marignane, Lugt Suppl. 1343a.

Hubert Marignane , French, born in 1921 (Lugt lists Paris and Menton); Nicolas Rauch sale, Geneva, June 11-15, 1960, lot 309, repr., as Nicolas Poussin; Vendor: Galerie de Bayser, Paris

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Seventeenth Century French Drawings and Prints from the Museum's Collections," May 18–August 22, 1982.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Seventeenth Century French Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum," February 2–April 25, 1996.

Bean and Turcic 1986.187

Galerie de Bayser, Paris Exposition de dessins et sculptures de maitres anciens, Galerie de Bayser. Paris, 1980, cat. no. 30, ill.

Pierre Rosenberg "Notes on some French seventeenth-century drawings; Saint-Igny, Vignon, Mellin, Millet and others." Burlington Magazine. vol. 124, no. 956, London, Nov. 1982, p. 698, note 21.

Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th-18th Century French Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, cat. no. 187, p. 173, ill.

Hilliard T. Goldfarb From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, December 13, 1989-January 28, 1990, cat. no. 25, pp. 62-63, ill.

Maîtres français, 1500-1800. Dessins de la donation Mathias Polakovits à l'École des Beaux-Arts. Exh. cat. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Paris, April 19-June 25, 1989, cat. no. under no. 23, p. 86.

Pierre Rosenberg, Louis-Antoine Prat Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665: Catalogue raisonné des dessins. 2 vols., Milan, 1994, cat. no. R 659, fig. no. R 659, pp. 944-945, ill.

Philippe Malgouyres Charles Mellin, un Lorrain entre Rome et Naples. Exh. cat., musée des beaux-arts, Nancy, May 4-Aug. 27, 2007 and musée des beaux-arts, Caen, Sept. 21-Dec. 31. Paris, 2007, cat. no. under D 46, pp. 198, 201.