DrawingsFrench17th century

Christ at the Column

c. 1635

Artists

Jacques StellaArtist

Nicolas PoussinPrevious attribution

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Pen with brown ink, black chalk, gray wash, and white gouache on cream antique laid paper prepared with gray wash, framing lines in black ink, made up on all four sides to regular dimensions, laid down on a decorated mount

Culture

French

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

23.7 x 19.2 cm (9 5/16 x 7 9/16 in.)

Provenance

The artist's estate; his niece, Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella, Paris, by descent; her cousin, Michel de Masso, Rome, by descent; Sir Edward J. Poynter, London (without his mark, L.874); his sale, Sotheby's, London, 24-25 April 1918, lot 232 (as copy after Nicolas Poussin); Mrs. Abraham Solomon, New York; her sale, Sotheby’s, London, 13 December 1966, lot 74; Germain Seligman, New York (his mark, L.3863, lower right); his wife, Mrs. Germain Seligman, New York, by descent; sold to Artemis, Luxembourg, with E. V. Thaw & Co., New York, David Carrit, Ltd., London, and Robert M. Light, Santa Barbara; Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/ Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louis Haskell Daly Fund, 1984.595

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