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Description

Nicolas Poussin
The Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne
inscribed 799 lower right
oil on canvas

Provenance

Ehrhardt, Berlin by the 1930s;
With Central Picture Galleries, New York, 1962, from whom purchased by
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. in 1962, by whom given to
The Chrysler Museum of Art in 1971.

Literature

Nicolas Poussin,1594-1665, exhibition catalogue, Rome 1977-78, p. 110, under no. 1;
P. Rosenberg, France in the Golden Age, exhibition catalogue, Paris/ New York/ Chicago 1982, p. 370, under no. 8 (as a copy of a painting in the Prado).

Catalogue Note

The present painting repeats in composition an autograph work by Poussin in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.