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Spring or The Earthly Paradise

Maker

After

1594-1665

(engraver)
1640-1703

Title

Spring or The Earthly Paradise

Date of Production

1660-1759

Dimensions

Height: 47 cm
Width: 62.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1939.AB.84

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

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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: "Les 4. Saisons du Cabinet du Roy peintes par N. Poussin"; "Perfect sunt Coeli et Terre et omnis ornatiseorum. compleuitique Deus dei Septimo opus fuum quod fecerat. Gen 2" ; lower centre: "Ver. Le Printemps" ; lower right: "A Paris chez 1. Audran graveur du Roy au Gobelins"; " Les Cieux et la Terre furent acheuez avec tous leurs oremens. et Dieu termina entierement Son ouurage le 7.e Jour. 2 Chap du la Genise"; lower right: handwritten on mount "A.436, 7/7/17 (16a) $ (15a)

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