Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)

The Satyr and the Peasant (recto), studies of leg and a draped figure, after the antique (verso)

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Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)
The Satyr and the Peasant (recto), studies of leg and a draped figure, after the antique (verso)
inscribed 'calsamento frigio'
pen and brown ink
135 x 112 mm.

Literature

A. Blunt, 'Poussin and Aesop', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, XXIX, 1966, p. 437, pl. 72b (recto).
W. Friedlander and A. Blunt, The drawings of Nicolas Poussin. A catalogue raisonné, London, 1939-74, V, no. 306, pl. 246 (recto), no. 427, fig. 40 (verso).
A. Blunt, The drawings of Poussin, New Haven and London, 1979, p. 47, fig. 40.
P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665, Milan, 1994, I, no. 192.

Exhibited

Paris, Musée du Louvre, Nicolas Poussin, 1960, no. 180.

Sale room notice

Please note that this drawing is sold unframed.

Lot Essay

Anthony Blunt noted that the recto of the present drawing follows, in reverse, a woodcut by Gabrielis Faernus for an edition of Aesop's Fables published in Rome in 1563, A. Blunt, op. cit., 1966, p. 437. The drawing is dated by P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat to 1635.

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