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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Birth of Alexander
    Nicolas Poussin. Birth of Alexander, 1640s. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00003507

    Birth of Alexander

    by Nicolas Poussin

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago
    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1987-October 8, 1988.

    Publications

    Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 367-68 and 371, no. 596 (ill.).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Nicolas Poussin / French 1594-1665
    Date
    1640s
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper
    Dimensions
    10.5 × 9.2 cm (4 3/16 × 3 5/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    ink with wash
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1922.622

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