Plate 2: confirmation
after Nicolas Poussin (Les Andeleys, Normandy 1594 – Rome 1665)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1640 - 1678
Materials
Paper, Ink
Measurements
440 x 553 mm
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 873018.4.132
Summary
(Folio 76, recto, mounted horizontally on sheet). Plate 2: confirmation; interior of a church with two priests, one seated, the other standing, anointing people's foreheads
Provenance
At Saltram by 1771 and thence by descent to Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley and given to NT as part of the Endowment following transfer in 1957.
Makers and roles
after Nicolas Poussin (Les Andeleys, Normandy 1594 – Rome 1665), creator Jean Dughet (1619 - 1678), engraver (printmaker)