Vénus endormie surprise par des satyres

c. 1625

on display

Nicolas Poussin1594 Les Andelys – 1665 Rom

Poetic-erotic satyr subject. Quickly and confidently painted Titianesque picture from Poussin's early years in Rome, with which several drawings are connected. A somewhat later version of the Zurich painting is in the National Gallery in London; old copies are also known. A reference to the thematically related painting 'Sleeping Venus with Cupid' in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden should not be missing here.In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

Also known as

Schlafende Venus von Satyren überrascht Sleeping Venus Surprised by Satyrs

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

image: 77 x 100 cm

Inventory number

2480

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, 1939

Signature

Inscriptions

Accession year

1939

Provenance

Nicolas Poussin (*1594 Les Andelys, +1665 Rom) (Künstler/-in)
o.D. – 1634, Agostino Tassi (*1578 Perugia, +1644 Rom)
Verbleib unbekannt
Paolo Falconieri (*1638, +1704), Rom [?]
bis ca. 1800, Casa Falconieri, Rom
Verbleib unbekannt
14.3.1809 / 1815, Phillips (Kunsthandel), London
Verbleib unbekannt
Earl of Yarborough
o.D. – 15.9.1939, Edward Speelman (*1910 London, +1994 Lausanne)Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd Archive, National Gallery, London, NGA27, Stock number 8559.
15.9.1939 – 1939, Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd. (Galerie), London, Kaufwie oben Fussnote 10.
ab 1939, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, Kauf

Provenance category

no indications of being looted art

About the provenance

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Literature (general)

- Die Meisterwerke, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft/Christian Klemm, Sammlungskatalog Kunsthaus Zürich, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 68 (ill.). - Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 116. - Humphrey Wine: «<Poussin Problems> at the National Gallery», in: Apollo – The International Art Magazine Vol. 397, 1995, S. 25-28, S. 28. - Pier Francesco Mola 1612-1666, Ausst.-Kat. Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano/Musei Capitolini, Rom, Mailand: Electa, 1989, No. IV.5. - Poussin. The Early Years in Rome, hrsg. von Konrad Oberhuber, Ausst.-Kat. Kimbell Art Museum, New York: Hudson Hills Press Fort Worth, 1988, No. 16, S. 97 f.. - Poussin and nature. Arcadian visions, Ausst.-Kat. Metropolitan Museum of Art/Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, New York, NY, 2008, S. 154 f..

Object type

painting

Classification

B 1[3] painting 16th to 18th century ITA, FRA and ESP

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