Nicolas Poussin
Passage Through the Red Sea
in or before 1634154 x 210 cm
Oil on canvas
Unsigned, undated
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Literature
Koenraad Jonckheere, The Auction of King William's Paintings 1713, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, 2008, fig. 66
Provenance
painted for Amadeo dal Pozzo, Marchese di Voghera, Turin, died 1643
Palazzo Voghera, Turin, by 1664
collection of the dal Pozzo family, Turin, by 1674
Philippe, the Chevalier de Lorraine, Paris, by 1684-died 1702
Jean Neyret de la Ravoye, Paris, in 1701
probably Bénigne La Ragois de Bretonvilliers, Paris, in 1710
with Samuel Paris, Paris, 1741, sold to Bouverie
Sir Jacob Bouverie (created Viscount Folkestone in 1747) in 1741
passed to William Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor
by descent to Earls of Radnor, by 1932
with Agnew's, sold to National Gallery of Victoria, 1948
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Other works by Nicolas Poussin
Esther Before Ahasuerus
1640s
1640s
The Triumph of David
Parnassus
Landscape with Burial of Phocion
Confirmation
1645
1645