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Arcadian Shepherds

Maker

(artist)
1594-1665

(engraver)
1753-1818

Title

Arcadian Shepherds

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 63 cm
Width: 76 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2949

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin left & recto : : Peint par Nicholas Poussin / A Paris chez l'Auteur, Rue St Honoré, / No. 347, vis-à-vis la place Vendome. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin centre & recto : : Deposé à la Bibliotheque Imperiale en 1810 / LES BERGERS D'ARCADIE. / C'etait.... (two lines of text) / Et in Arcadia ego. / (six lines of text not transcribed) //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin right & recto : : Dessine [ampersand] Gravé par Maurice Blot. / Imprimé par Rambaux / Ecrit par Picquet Jeune. //

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