FJK 101

Poussin Nicolas (French, Les Andelys 1594–1665 Rome)

Moses Defending Jethro’s Daughters (recto)

ca. 1647
4 61/64 × 11 19/64 in. (126 × 287 mm) / Right fragment: 4 61/64 × 3 25/32 in. (126 × 96 mm)

Medium
Pen, brown ink and brown wash (recto)
Pen, brown ink and restaurations in black chalk (verso)
Two drawings on two vertically joined sheets

Traces of framing outline in pen and brown ink by the hand of Poussin bottom right and upper left
On reverse of right fragment: study for a group female figures
On reverse of left fragment: studies for the same composition

Origin

Paul (1811-1902) and Hippolyte (1809-1864) Flandrin Collection
Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, October 2, 1985, no. 139 (color ill. and left part of drawing on cover)
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 4074
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

GOLDFARB H., From Fontainebleau to the Louvre. French Drawings from the SeSaleenth Century, exh. cat. The Clevenland Museum of Art, 1989, mentioned under no. 20, fig. 20a).

ROSENBERG Pierre, PRAT Louis-Antoine, Nicolas Poussin, Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1994, vol. I, pp. 590-591, no. 304, ill.

Exhibitions

Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand-Palais, Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665, exh. cat., 1994-1995, p. 370, no. 157, ill.

Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, p. 98, no. 42, color ill. p. 99.

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p. 122, no. 54, color ill. p. 123.

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 140, no. 54, color ill. p. 141.

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, p. 124, no. 50, color ill. p. 125.

Munich, Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge: Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, p. 128, no. 56, color ill. p. 129.