Search Request | Object report

Finding Moses

Lost Art-ID

392611

Artist / Creator

Poussin, Nicolas

Birth

1593 / 1594.06, Villers (Normandie)

Death

1665.11.19

Place of activity

Paris; Rom

Title

Finding Moses

Dating

1665 (at the latest)

Object type

Painting

Group of reported objects

Painting

Material / Technique

Oil ; Canvas / painted

Height

136.00 cm

Width

190.00 cm

Provenance

no later than 1665 Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665); no later than 1925-at least 1936 Hugo Simon (1880-1950); 6 Nov. 1936 Max Kaganovitch, probably received on commission from Hugo Simon; since 1950 Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Literature / Source

Piper, David/White, Christopher, Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum: An Illustrated Souvenir of the Collections, revised ed., Oxford 1995, Kat.-Nr. 74, S. 74, Abb. S. 74; Whistler, Catherine, Baroque and Later Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, London 2016, Kat.-Nr. 164, S. 476-485; Kunsthaus Zürich, Archiv 2001/001:082, Bl. 121, Brief von Wilhelm Wartmann an Max Kaganovitch, 06.11.1936

Published since

2007

Contact

Agnes Peresztegi

E-Mail

agnes@peresztegi.com