
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006038Studies after Andrea Mantegna, Giulio Romano, and the Antique
Provenance
Lord Arundel [according to 1881 Bale sale cat.]. Marquis de Lagoy [stamp (Lugt 1710) recto, lower right, in black]. Comte Moriz von Fries [blind stamp (Lugt 2903) recto, lower left]. Sir Thomas Lawrence, c. 1820 [blind stamp (Lugt 2445) recto, lower left]. William Russel [according to Sotheby's 1918]. Charles Sackville Bale [stamp (Lugt 640) verso, lower center, in black]; sold, Christie's, London, June 9, 1881, lot 2406. Sir Edward John Poynter [stamp (Lugt 874) recto, lower left, in blue]; sold, Sotheby's, London, Apr. 25, 1918, lot 224, to Douglas. Alfred Normand, Paris, from c. 1950 [stamp (Lugt 153c) recto, lower left and verso, lower right, in purple]. Sold by Salamander Fine Arts, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, Apr. 12, 2007; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
Paris, Galerie Aubry, Dessins français et italiens du XVIe et du XVIIe siècles, 1971, cat. 83. Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 47 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020. UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Publications
Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters (Oxford University Press, 1912), vol. 7, no. 29. Walter Friedlaender and Anthony Blunt, The Drawings of Nicolas Poussin: Catalogue raisonné (Warburg Institute, 1974), vol. 5, no. 347, pl. 266. Anthony Blunt, The Drawings of Poussin (Yale University Press, 1979), pp. 142–43, fig. 161. Anthony Blunt, Les dessins de Poussin (Hazan, 1988), pp. 158–59, fig. 141. Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Nicolas Poussin, 1594–1665: Catalogue raisonné des dessins (Leonardo, 1994), vol. 1, pp. 402–03, no. 206.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Nicolas Poussin / French, 1594–1665
- Date
- 1635/40
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 26.9 × 20.3 cm (10 5/8 × 8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.861
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