Live Auction 7412Important European Furniture, Sculpture and Carpets
A RECTANGULAR GILT-BRONZE RELIEF OF THE HOLY FAMILY
Lot 192PROPERTY FROM THE LOYD COLLECTION
(LOTS 180-207)

A RECTANGULAR GILT-BRONZE RELIEF OF THE HOLY FAMILY

AFTER NICOLAS POUSSIN, ITALIAN, 17TH CENTURY

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GBP 1,200

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A RECTANGULAR GILT-BRONZE RELIEF OF THE HOLY FAMILY
AFTER NICOLAS POUSSIN, ITALIAN, 17TH CENTURY
Depicted before a classical ruin; the reverse with inventory number '3052' and sale label '76 8.12.87'; in a modern velvet-covered surround and gilt-wood frame painted with the inventory number '162'
8 x 6 3/8 in. (20.3 x 16.2 cm.)

Specialist note

This relief is derived, in reverse, from a painting of the Holy Family by Poussin which is in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The artist presumably knew the composition from an engraved image of the painting.