SCHOOL OF NICHOLAS POUSSIN (French, 1594-1665). CLASSICAL LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES, oil on canvas - 40 1/2 in. x 50 3/4 in. Estimate $8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE: Vose Gallery, Boston, 1923 (as Gaspar Dughet, or Gaspar Poussin) Thence by descent to the present owner
Not lined, allover craquelure with some separation especially lower right, two 1/2" flakes at lower right; stretcher stress especially at vertical cross stretcher with paint loss. Inventory (possibly Vose) T1096 on stretcher, Foster Bros. (Boston) label on frame, later inscribed "R. BARESOR" in chalk on frame. UV: no recent restoration, earlier restoration not detectable.
