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Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake

Maker

After

1594-1665


ca. 1638-1711 (Life dates)

Title

Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake

Dimensions

Height: 64.1 cm
Width: 83.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1939.AB.94

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

Keywords









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: “P. Par N. Poussin”; lower right: “G. par E. Baudet Gt. Ord. du R. aux Gall. Du Louvre a Paris. 3”; lower center: “Dedié a Louis le Grand Roy de France et de Navarre.”; lower center: “Divers effets d’horreur et de crainte sont ioy exprimés. Un jeune homme mort proche diune fontaine a tout le corps envelopé par un Serpent d’une grandeur enorme: Cet aspect effroyable fait fuir un autre homme don’t les regards troublez et les cheueux herissez sur son front epouuantent/ une femme plus eloigneé assise au bord du chemin: Et les cris de celle cy font encore plus loing tourner la teste a quelques pescheurs don’t un est assis aupres d’un grand lac avec ses compagnons qui joiient a la mourre, Et d’autres conduisent une barque et retirent leurs filets. L’on tient que le Pouissin peignit ce/ tableau a l’occasion d’un accident semblable qui arriva de son temps aux environs de Rome.//”; lower left, handwritten: “26”; lower left, handwritten on the mount: “746/18(24a)”; lower right, handwritten on the mount: “746/18(24a)”; lower right, handwritten on the mount: “A.442”.

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