Possibly Venus and Mars in a Bedchamber with Cupid (recto) and Selene and the Sleeping Endymion (verso)
attributed to Jacques Blanchard (Paris 1600 – Paris 1638)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1626 - 1627
Materials
Brown wash over black chalk on paper
Measurements
155 x 217 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1251017
Summary
Brown wash over black chalk on paper, Possibly Venus and Mars in a Bedchamber with Cupid (recto) and Selene and the Sleeping Endymion (verso), attributed to Jacques Blanchard (Paris 1600 – Paris 1638), inscribed on recto, bottom centre: Diseg: di Monsr Posin [Poussin], 1626/27. Although inscribed in an apparently seventeenth-century hand ‘Diseg: di Mons.Posin’ and ‘di mano propria’ (‘by his own hand’), this drawing is not by Poussin, but by another French artist working in his orbit in Italy. The likeliest candidate is Blanchard, who went to Rome in 1624 (like Poussin), but spent from 1626 to 1628 in Venice, whence these and the small group of drawings to which they belong seem to have come.
Provenance
1st set of Kingston Lacy Picture Bats, c.1800 (Henry Bankes the Younger [1757 - 1834]) as by Poussin; and thence by descent; bequeathed by (Henry John) Ralph Bankes (1902 – 1981) together with the estates of Corfe Castle and Kingston Lacy and its entire contents
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: inscribed on recto, bottom centre: Diseg: di Monst Posin.
Makers and roles
attributed to Jacques Blanchard (Paris 1600 – Paris 1638), artist previously catalogued as by Nicolas Poussin (Les Andeleys, Normandy 1594 – Rome 1665), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy (1611 - 1668), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Charles Mellin (1597-1647/9), artist