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Baby Moses Floating in a Basket (from "The Exposition of Moses")

Engraver Antoine Carrée French
After Nicolas Poussin French
1806
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Baby Moses Floating in a Basket (from "The Exposition of Moses")
  • Series/Portfolio: Recueil de figures et têtes: choisies dans le plus beaux tableaux de Nicolas Poussin
  • Engraver: Antoine Carrée (French, active 1780–1800)
  • Artist: After Nicolas Poussin (French, Les Andelys 1594–1665 Rome)
  • Date: 1806
  • Medium: Engraving and stipple
  • Dimensions: Plate: 9 13/16 × 14 3/4 in. (25 × 37.4 cm)
    Sheet: 10 1/16 × 14 15/16 in. (25.5 × 38 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
  • Object Number: 53.600.1169(9)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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