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Hercules Consulting the Oracle

Jean Pesne (French, 1623–1700)
After: Nicolas Poussin (French (active in Rome), 1594–1665)
1678

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 29 × 29.1 cm (11 7/16 × 11 7/16 in.)(trimmed on the platemark; with thread margins in places)
Credit Line Bequest of Mrs. Arthur Croft—The Gardner Brewer Collection
Accession NumberM18231
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robert-Dumesnil 34, ii/ii; Le Blanc 27, ii/ii
Marks Verso, lower center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Croft Bequest (Lugt 469)
ProvenanceGardner Brewer (b. 1806-d. 1874), Boston; 1874, by bequest to his daughter, Caroline A. Brewer (Mrs. Arthur Croft)(d. 1898); 1898, her bequest to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 1, 1902)