Accession number
PML 145499, plate 063
Creator
Niquet, Claude, approximately 1770- engraver.
Published
[Paris : Chez Filhol?, 1810]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title .
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 64, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Print inlaid in leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Print engraved by Niquet after painting by Poussin, published as plate 49 in v.1 of "Galerie du Musée Napoléon" (Paris : Filhol, 1804-1828).
Inscription from Filhol - Lettered at head: N. Poussin.; numbered at upper left: No. 49; lettered at upper right Ecole Françse; at lower left: Des. par Delrene; at lower center: Gravé à l' Eau-forte par Duplesi Bertaux ; lower right: Termé par Niquet.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 64, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Print inlaid in leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Print engraved by Niquet after painting by Poussin, published as plate 49 in v.1 of "Galerie du Musée Napoléon" (Paris : Filhol, 1804-1828).
Inscription from Filhol - Lettered at head: N. Poussin.; numbered at upper left: No. 49; lettered at upper right Ecole Françse; at lower left: Des. par Delrene; at lower center: Gravé à l' Eau-forte par Duplesi Bertaux ; lower right: Termé par Niquet.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 98 x 151 mm; sheet: 115 x 162 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Rebecca and Eliezer, with a jar on the ground at their feet, standing and conversing. Behind them is a group of women retrieving water with large jars from a well.
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