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Nicolas Poussin
The Baptism of Christ
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Nicolas Poussin
The Baptism of Christ
1641/42
95.5 x 121 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker,
National Gallery of Art, Washington
, New York, 1995, nr. 417
Philip Conisbee,
French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century
, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 83
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73C121
Baptism of Christ in the river Jordan: John the Baptist pouring out water on Christ's head: the Holy Ghost descends
External links
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Accession number
1946.7.14
Other works by Nicolas Poussin
The Companions of Rinaldo
c. 1633
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
1658
Jupiter as a Child
Helios and Phaeton with Saturnus
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ