print
- Museum number
- 1942,0520.2.79
- Title
- Object: Nicholas Poussin
- Description
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Portrait of French painter Nicolas Poussin, after the artist's self-portrait; half-length, turned to left, left hand resting on roll of paper, with paintings in the background; open-letter state.
Etching with aquatint
- Production date
- 1823-1859 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 197 millimetres (cut)
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Width: 140 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After a portrait executed in 1650 for Paul Fréart de Chantelou and now at the Musée du Louvre, Paris. For a print after the same portrait by Jean Pesne, see 1856,0913.316.
Facing page 134 of an extra illustrated copy of Charles Robert Leslie's 'Memoirs of the life of John Constable, Esq. R. A.' (London: James Carpenter, 1843), not on the list of plates hence an extra illustration.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1942
- Acquisition notes
- Refer back to 1942,0520.2.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1942,0520.2.79
