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The Adoration of the Golden Calf

Maker

After

1594-1665

1712-after 1758 (Life dates)

Title

Date of Production

1684 - 1728

Dimensions

Height: 59.3 cm
Width: 71.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1939.AB.95

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: “N. Poussin invenit et Pinxit”; lower right: “Iean Baptiste de Poilly Sculp. Et excud.”; lower center: “Peuple fou et insensé esce la ce que tu rends au Seigneur ton Dieu? Deut. Chap. 32.”; lower center: “Maeccine reddis Domino popule stulte et insipiens? Deut. Cap 32.”; lower right: “Se Vend a Paris rue St. Iacques a la Belle image Avec Privilege du Roy”; lower left, handwritten: “15”; lower left, handwritten on mount: “B64/569”; lower left, handwritten on mount: “746/11(20)”; lower right, handwritten on mount: “A.74”.

Inscription: Verso: lower center: “746/11(20)”.

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