Accession number
PML 145499, plate 097
Creator
Niquet, Claude, ca.1770- engraver.
Published
[Paris : Chez Filhol?, 1810]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title from inscription in Filhol.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 97, 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.
Library's copy is a proof impression before final lettering.
Print engraved by Niquet after painting by Poussin, published as plate 307 in v. 5 of "Galerie du Musée Napoléon" (Paris : Filhol, 1804-1828).
Lettered at head: N. Poussin; numbered at upper left: No. 307; lettered at upper right Ecole Françse; at lower left: Delé par S. Le Roi; at lower center: Gravé à l' Eau-forte par Dup. Bertaux; lower right: Teré par Niquet.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 97, 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.
Library's copy is a proof impression before final lettering.
Print engraved by Niquet after painting by Poussin, published as plate 307 in v. 5 of "Galerie du Musée Napoléon" (Paris : Filhol, 1804-1828).
Lettered at head: N. Poussin; numbered at upper left: No. 307; lettered at upper right Ecole Françse; at lower left: Delé par S. Le Roi; at lower center: Gravé à l' Eau-forte par Dup. Bertaux; lower right: Teré par Niquet.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 106 x 144 mm; sheet: 157 x 174 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Moses trampling on Pharaoh's crown; a man armed with a dagger rushes towards the infant Moses, who is trampling the crown underfoot; a servant tries to interpose herself while another takes the infant away; Pharaoh lies on a couch nearby; a group of three figures each on each side of the composition.
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