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17th-Century Follower of Nicolas Poussin

The Death of Germanicus

Lot Closed

October 19, 03:21 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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17th-Century Follower of Nicolas Poussin

The Death of Germanicus


oil on canvas

unframed: 149 x 200.1 cm.; 58⅝ x 78¾ in.

framed: 173.6 x 225 cm.; 68⅜ x 88⅝ in.

Succi collection (according to an old handwritten label on the reverse).

A 17th-century copy after the painting of 1627 by Nicolas Poussin, commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Barberini and in the possession of that family until it was acquired in 1958 by the Minneapolis Institute of Art (inv. no. 58.28).1This composition was Poussin's first major history painting. It depicts the moment when Germanicus, a young Roman general, lies on his deathbed and injuncts his friends and wife to avenge his murder, having been poisoned by his jealous adoptive father, the emperor Tiberius.


1 https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1348/the-death-of-germanicus-nicolas-poussin