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Nicolas Poussin (artist) French, 1594 - 1665 The Assumption of the Virgin, c. 1626 oil on canvas Overall: 134.4 x 98.1 cm (52 15/16 x 38 5/8 in.) framed: 171.8 x 135.3 x 13.7 cm (67 5/8 x 53 1/4 x 5 3/8 in.) Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund 1963.5.1 |
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Provenance
Probably the painting recorded in the posthumous inventory of Vincenzo Giustiniani [d.1637], Rome, who may have commissioned it, still recorded in 1688. Probably Conte Niccolò Soderini, Rome, by 1750. (James Byres, Rome) sold 1764 tp Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter [d. 1804], Burghley House, Northampton; by inheritance to Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter [d. 1867], Burghley House, Northampton; by inheritance to William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter [d. 1895], Burghley House, Northampton; by inheritance Brownlow Henry George Cecil, 4th Marquess of Exeter [d. 1898], Burghley House, Northampton; by inheritance to William Thomas Brownlow Cecil, 5th Marquess of Exeter [d. 1956], Burghley House, Northampton; by inheritance to David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, Burghley House, Northampton; by whom sold 1962 to (Wildenstein & Co., London, New York, and Paris);[2] sold 1963 to NGA.
[1]See Treasure Houses of Britain, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, 1985, pp. 45-46. [2]Provenance published in France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth Century French Paintings in American Collections, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, no.88.
Associated Names
- Byres, James
- Exeter, Brownlow Cecil, 2nd marquess of
- Exeter, Brownlow Henry George Cecil, 4th marquess of
- Exeter, David George Browlow Cecil, 6th marquess of
- Exeter, Henry Cecil, 1st marquess of
- Exeter, William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd marquess of
- Exeter, William Thomas Brownlow Cecil, 5th marquess of
- Giustiniani, Vincenzo
- Soderini, Niccolò, Conte
- Wildenstein & Co., Inc.
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