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Title:Wooded Landscape with a Tower
Artist:Anonymous, French, 17th century
Date:17th century
Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite; framing lines in graphite
Dimensions:7 11/16 x 10 1/2 in. (19.6 x 26.7 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Object Number:1972.118.225
Inscription: Numbered at lower right in pen and brown ink: "6".
Gustav Lebel; Jean Dollfus (French)(according to Virch, 1960, not in Dollfus Collection sale, 1912).
Carnegie Institute. "French Paintings, 1100-1900," October 8, 1951–December 2, 1951.
Morgan Library & Museum. "Landscape Drawings and Watercolors, Bruegel to Cézanne," January 31, 1953–April 11, 1953.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "French Drawings: Masterpieces from Seven Centuries," 1955-1956.
Art Institute of Chicago. "French Drawings: Masterpieces from Seven Centuries," 1955-1956.
Detroit Institute of Arts. "French Drawings: Masterpieces from Seven Centuries," 1955-1956.
Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "French Drawings: Masterpieces from Seven Centuries," 1955-1956.
Rotterdam. Museum Boymans. "Van Clouet tot Matisse, Tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties," July 31–September 28, 1958.
Paris. Musée de l'Orangerie. "De Clouet à Matisse, dessins français des collections américaines," October–November 1958.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse," February 3–March 15, 1959.
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Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao. "Poussin y la naturaleza," October 8, 2007–January 13, 2008.
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Sir Anthony Blunt "Poussin Studies V: 'The Silver Birch Master'." The Burlington Magazine. March 1950, note 14, p. 70.
French Painting, 1100-1900 Exh. cat. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, October 18-December 2, 1951, cat. no. 139, ill.
Felice Stampfle Landscape Drawings and Water-colors, Bruegel to Cézanne. Exh. cat. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum, 1953, cat. no. 21.
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Claus Virch "The Walter C. Baker Collection of Master Drawings." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 18, no. 10, New York, June 1960, fig. no. 1, pp. 310, 315, ill.
Vassar College Centennial Exhibition, Drawings and Watercolors from Alumnae and Their Families.. May 19-Sept. 9, 1961, cat. no. 36, ill.
Agnes Mongan, Ira Moskowitz Great Drawings of All Times, vol. 3: French, thirteenth century to 1919. New York, 1962, cat. no. 656, ill.
Claus Virch Master Drawings in the Collection of Walter C. Baker. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1962, cat. no. 41, pp. 31-32, ill.
John Shearman, Richard Hughes-Hallet The Drawings of Nicholas Poussin. Catalogue Raisonné: Part Four: Studies for the Long Gallery; The Decorative Drawings; The Illustrations to Leonardo's Treatise; The Landscape Drawings. Walter Friedlaender, Sir Anthony Blunt, part 4, London, 1963, pl. 237, cat. no. G 27, p. 62, ill.
Marco Chiarini "Due mostre e un libro (Studi recenti sulla pittura di paesaggio a Roma fra Sei e Settecento)" Paragone. no. 187, September 1965, p. 72 (as Poussin).
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Jacob Bean "Curatorial Reports and Departmental Accessions: Drawings." In Annual Report of the Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 1, 1979 - June 30, 1980. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 110, New York, 1980, p. 27.
Doris Wild Nicolas Poussin. 2 vols., Zurich, 1980, p. 256.
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