Follower of Nicolas Poussin

Literature

Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 416 (as Poussin)
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 85

Provenance

Sir Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford (1676 - 1745), Dressing Room of 10 Downing Street, London, by 1736
by inheritance to his son, Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Oxford and 2nd baron Walpole (1717-1797), Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex
by inheritance to the daughter of his cousin Henry Seymour Conway, Mrs. Anne Seymour Damer (died 1828), Strawberry Hill, who in 1811, as directed by terms of the 4th Earl's will, turned the estate over to his niece, Maria, Dowager Countess of Waldegrave (died 1835), Strawberry Hill
by inheritance to her grandson, John James Waldegrave, 6th earl of Waldegrave (1785-1835), Strawberry Hill
by inheritance to his son, George Edward Waldegrave, 7th earl of Waldegrave (1816-1846), Strawberry Hill
Strawberry Hill sale, at the residence by George Robins, Twickenham, 25 April - 24 May 1842, 21st day (18 May 1842), nr. 46
Sir John Easthope, bt. (1784-1865), London
Mrs. Doyle
Major Cecil Uvedale Corbett (1880-1944), Stableford Hall, Stableford, near Bridgnorth, Shropshire
presumably by inheritance to his son, Lt.-Col. Uvedale Corbett (1909-2005), Shobdon, near Leominster, Herefordshire
with C. Marshall Spink, London, sold 1947 to Wildenstein
with Wildenstein and Co., Inc., Paris, New York, and London, sold 1947 to the Kress Foundation
Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1952 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1952.2.21

Other works by Nicolas Poussin

Landscape with a calm
1650-51

Landscape with Saint John on Patmos
1640

The Holy Family on the Steps
1648

The Assumption of the Virgin
c. 1630/32

The Companions of Rinaldo
c. 1633