After Nicolas Poussin

The Holy Family on the Steps

细节

After Nicolas Poussin
The Holy Family on the Steps
oil on canvas
72.8 x 99.5 cm

来源

Joseph Otto Entres (1804-1870), thence by descent to the present owner
Entres is recorded as a Munich sculptor of Christian imagery. He was a frantic collector who aimed at a collection of originals and copies that covered the entire history of art.

拍品专文

The copiist based himself on the engraving by Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella after the painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Bequest (P. Rosenberg, Nicolas Poussin, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1994/5, p.397, no.173, with ill. in colour; for the engraving Rosenberg, op.cit., p.398, fig.173B). Another copy after the engraving is in the National Gallery in Washington (Rosenberg, op.cit., p.398, fig.173A). The latter painting has long been regarded as the original painting, as a consequence of an interchange of the provenance of both the Washington and the Cleveland pictures. The original was probably painted for Nicolas Hennequin de Fresne, 'Maitre des Chasses du Roi'. It was acquired by the Cleveland Museum in 1981. The Holy Family on the Steps is to be dated to circa 1648 and is the first of a series of paintings of the Holy Family all executed circa 1650.

See colour illustration