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Portrait of Nicolas Poussin

Jean Pesne (French, 1623–1700)
After: Nicolas Poussin (French (active in Rome), 1594–1665)
1649

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 36 × 25 cm (14 3/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Platemark: 35.8 × 24.6 cm (14 1/8 × 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Charles Sumner
Accession NumberM30
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robert-Dumesnil 6, i/ii; Le Blanc 96, i/ii
Marks Verso, lower left-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceCharles Sumner (b. 1811-d. 1874), Boston; 1874, his bequest to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 27, 1874)