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Jesus and the Woman Taken in Adultery

Maker

After

1594-1665

(engraver)
1640-1703

Title

Dimensions

Height: 45 cm
Width: 64.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1939.AB.81

Mode of Acquisition

Warburg Institute, London, transfer, 1939

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Provenance

Léon Coutil, Les Andelys (1856-1943); acquired by Anthony Blunt for the Warburg Institute, 1938; transferred to The Courtauld Institute, 1939.

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower left, inside the image: “N. Poussin pinxit”; lower left: “Les Scribes et les Pharisiens amenerent a Jesus/ une femme surprise en adultere essayant de le/ Suprendre affin d’avoir occasion de l’accuser, et/ Jesus leurdit/ Que Celuy dentre vous qui est/ sans peché luy jette la premiere pierre. En S. Jean Chap. 8.”; lower center: “Illustrissimo Viro Domino D. Joanni Baptistae Colbert/ Regi ab intimis Consiliis et Secretis, Generalis AE rarii Moderatori,/ Summo Regiorum aedificioru Praefecto, Regiorum Ordinum Quaestori,/ Marchioni de Segnelay, Baroni de Seaux Xc./ Dicat humill. Feruus G. Audran//”; lower right, partially lost: “Adduxerunt ad I…/ Mulierem in adult…/ eum ut possent eun…/ Qui Sine pecca…/ in illam lapi…//”; lower left: “Loriginal ce conerue dans la Gallerie de Monsir le Nostre Con.r du Roy et Controlleur general des Bastimens Bcc.”; lower right: “Gravé par Audran Avec Privi. du Roy. Rue St. Jacques aux 2. Piliers dor.”; lower left, written on the mount: “10”; lower right, written on the mount: “A.186 dupe? / no 2[circled]/ no 1[circled] photo, not burnt/ no 2[circled] dup engr, no photo//”.

Inscription: Verso: lower right: “No photograph A186”.

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