The 50 plates / Plate 47 of 50
Plate 47 of 50
Study After the Antique
Studie nach der Antike
Nicolas Poussin
Not yet located
The drawing
A classical female figure in profile walks toward an ornate architectural structure, holding a long, slender, vine-like object vertically between her raised hands. Her elaborate drapery billows behind her, suggesting movement. The structure at right features fluted columns, decorative latticework, and closed double doors. The composition is enclosed within a double rectangular border, with a small inscription at the lower right.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Nicolas Poussin
- Title as printed
- Studie nach der Antike
- Title in English
- Study After the Antique
- Medium and size
- Pen and wash, 14.5 × 16.5 cm
- Inscription
- Inscribed “poussin”
- Collection in 1922
- Ducal collection, Dessau (no. 4112)
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Nicolas Poussin, as attributed by Becker. No independent modern attribution of this exact composition has been verified.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 47.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.