Lot 61
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No Description (2)

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No Description (2)
Provenance
J. Richardson Sen., his mount with inscription 'Nicolas Poussin.'
1st Earl of Leicester
Literature
W. Friedlaender and A. Blunt, Catalogue Raisonné, The Drawings of Nicolas Poussin, London, 1953, III, no. 236, pl. 170
A. E. Popham and C. E. Lloyd, Old Master Drawings at Holkham Hall, Chicago, 1986, no. 285
Exhibited
Norwich, Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings lent by the Earl of Leicester, 1949, no. 48
London, Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd, Old Master Drawings from Holkham, 1977, no. 38
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, A Loan Exhhibition of Drawings by Nicolas Poussin from British Collections, 1991, no. 20, illustrated

Lot Essay

Blunt and Friedlaender have suggested that this dates from the early 1630s, comparing the river god to one in the Cephalus and Aurora in the British Museum, Friedlaender and Blunt, op. cit., no. A 56. Hugh Brigstocke advanced a slightly later date of the mid 1630s, as the relatively open landscape, and the sense of movement among the putti playing among the trees anticipates the Apollo and Daphne of circa 1636 at Chatsworth, Friedlaender and Blunt, op. cit., no. 172

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