1943.811: Mourners after "Sacrament of Extreme Unction" by Nicolas Poussin

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.811

People

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
After Nicolas Poussin, French (Les Andelys, France 1594 - 1665 Rome, Italy)

Title

Mourners after "Sacrament of Extreme Unction" by Nicolas Poussin

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1856

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297636

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Prepared black chalk on off-white modern laid paper

Dimensions

actual: 47.6 x 30.9 cm (18 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• stamp: l.l.: Vente signature stamp [L. 658] in red
• stamp: verso, u.r.: Atelier stamp [L. 657] in red
• inscription: verso, u.r., blue crayon: 1811
• inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: Groupe de Poussin [?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Atelier Degas sold at Vente IV, no. 95c, 1919.
Scott & Fowles, New York, Purchased from Atelier Degas?, Sold to Grenville L. Winthrop, 10/16/20; Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.811

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Catalogue des tableaux, pastels et dessins par Edgar Degas et provenant de son atelier 4e vente, July 2-4, 1919, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, July 2 - July 4, 1919), no. 95c
• Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1961), no. 14
• Theodore Reff, "Degas's Copies of Older Art", The Burlington Magazine (June 1963), CV, p. 246; fig. 7
• Alexandra Wald, "Degas and the Opera: Worlds in Transition", Harvard University Art Museums Gallery Series, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1993), no. 1, repr.
• Pierre Rosenberg, Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1994), under no. 107, fig. 107a
• Marjorie B. Cohn and Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at Harvard, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge and New Haven, 2005), cat. no. 28, fig. 60

Exhibition History

• Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/24/1961 - 05/20/1961

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