Charles Mellin (1597-1649)

Saint Paul preaching in the Areopagus in Athens

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Charles Mellin (1597-1649)
Saint Paul preaching in the Areopagus in Athens
with inscription 'Nicolas Poussin' on a label attached to the verso; black chalk, brown wash
148 x 93mm.

Lot Essay

The handling, particularly the use of wash, in The Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple of 1643 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is comparable to that of the present study, J. Bean and L. Turcic, 15th-18th Century French Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, no. 187, illustrated

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