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Follower of Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin (related artist) French, 1594 - 1665 Feeding of the Child Jupiter, c. 1650 oil on canvas Overall: 117.4 x 155.3 cm (46 1/4 x 61 1/8 in.) framed: 148 x 184.2 x 12.1 cm (58 1/4 x 72 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1952.2.21 |
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Provenance
Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford [1676- 1745], Houghton Hall, Norfolk;[1] presumably by inheritance to his youngest son, Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford [d.1797], Strawberry Hill, Middlesex;[2] by inheritance as residuary legatee to Anne Seymour Damer [d. 1828], Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, who in 1811 turned estate over to Walpole's descendants, as directed by terms of his will; Maria, Dowager Countess of Waldegrave [d. 1835], Horace Walpole's niece and heiress; by inheritance to her grandson, John James Waldegrave, 6th Earl of Waldegrave, Strawberry Hill, Middlesex; by inheritance to George Edward Waldegrave, 7th Earl of Waldegrave [d. 1846], Strawberry Hill, Middlesex;[3] (Waldegrave sale at Strawberry Hill, 18 May 1842, no. 46, sale dates 4/25-5/24); purchased by Sir John Easthope, Bart. [d. 1865]. Mrs. Doyle. Major Cecil Uvedale Corbett [d. 1944], Stableford Hall, Shropshire; by inheritance to his son, Major Uvedale Corbett, Bridgnorth, Shropshire.[4] (C. Marchall Spink); sold 1947 to (Wildenstein, New York); sold 1947 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1952 to NGA.
[1]Catalogue of his father's collection by Horace Walpole, 1736, p. 15. [2]Catalogued in Walpole collection in 1764 (p. 75) and 1798 (p. 470). [3]Information regarding the descent from Horace Walpole to the Earl Waldegrave provided by the Getty Provenance Index. [4] On Corbett, see letter from Martha Hepworth dated 17 March 1986 in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
- Corbett, Cecil Uvedale, Major
- Corbett, Uvedale, Major
- Damer, Anne Seymour
- Doyle, Mrs.
- Easthope, Bart., John, Sir
- Kress Foundation, Samuel H. (Kress number K1440)
- Spink, C. Marchall
- Waldegrave, George Edward Waldegrave, 7th Earl of
- Waldegrave, John James Waldegrave, 6th Earl of
- Waldegrave, Maria, Dowager Countess of
- Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, Robert, Sir
- Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, Horace
- Wildenstein & Co., Inc.
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