Master Paintings Part II
Master Paintings Part II
Sold Without Reserve
After Nicolas Poussin
Adoration of the Magi
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Lot Closed
May 26, 02:09 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sold Without Reserve
After Nicolas Poussin
Adoration of the Magi
inscribed on column fragment lower right: A[cad Rom.] / Nicolas Poussin / f[ecit] Roma[e] 1633
oil on canvas
canvas: 59 ¾ by 71 ¼ in.; 151.7 by 181 cm.
framed: 65 ½ by 77 ¼ in.; 166.4 by 196.2 cm.
Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 23 March 2000, lot 36;
Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 25 October, 2002, lot 105;
Thereafter acquired by the present collector.
This large and impressive work is a nearly full-scale copy of Nicolas Poussin's Adoration of the Magi, signed and dated 1633, in the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden.1 Other large-scale copies after Poussin's original are held in the collections of the Musée du Louvre (inv. no. 7278), the Musée de Grenoble (inv. no. MG 201), and the Dulwich Picture Gallery (inv. no. DPG227).
1. Inv. no. 717, oil on canvas, 160 by 182 cm.