drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5237.147
- Description
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Study for 'A Bacchanalian Revel before a Term of Pan' in the National Gallery, London (NG 62); six partially draped male and female figures dancing, the woman at left pouring from a jug in to a dish, a putto asleep on the ground at left and the legs of a figure at r, part of a statue at top r
Pen and brown ink, with red and brown wash, and red chalk; squared for transfer
Verso: A river god and three nymphs; the god reclining on rocks, two nymphs standing together pointing, the third sitting down
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
- Production date
- 1593-1665
- Dimensions
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Height: 234 millimetres
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Width: 341 millimetres (max;irregularly cut)
- Curator's comments
- Rosenberg and Prat reject the attribution to Poussin (an opinion that has proven controversial).
Related to the painting in the National Gallery, London (NG 62). Another drawing, at Windsor (Royal Collection), shows a similar scene.
Literature: 'Poussin y la Naturaleza', exh. cat., Bilbao and New York, 2007-8, p.182, under cat.24, repr. fig.74 (with further literature).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1981 Sep-Oct, Edinburgh, NG of Scotland, Poussin's Sacraments, no. 17
1990/1 Dec-Feb, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Drawings by Poussin, no. 37
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- Unidentified collector's mark l r corner.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5237.147
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A,22.147