Plate II Anna in the Temple Sheet 16
after Nicolas Poussin (Les Andeleys, Normandy 1594 – Rome 1665)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1715 - 1756
Materials
Paper, Ink
Measurements
325 x 223 mm
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 873018.4.67
Caption
copy in British museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1872-0810-961. The attribution of the compositions to Poussin has been rejected by Andresen (see p.61). Jacques Stella is now recognised as the actual designer of the set: Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella's will (1697) mentions a series of twenty-two drawings on the life of the Virgin executed by her uncle. And in a letter addressed to Giovanni Bottari dated 1 October 1756, Mariette writes: 'Non dico lo stesso delle stampe della Vita della Madonna, intaglio del Polanzani che voi mi avete parimente mandato. Io me credeva vi vedere dei disegni del celebre Pussino, ma non vi ho trovato se non una composizione, alla quale egli certo non ha avuto mano, e credo senza dubbio che sieno d'un pittore francese, amico del Pussino, che si chiamava Iacopo Stella...'. Many of the original drawings survive: one for 'Pentecost' is now in the BM (see 1991,0406.62). A later edition of this set was published under the title 'La Vita della gran Madre di Dio' by Venanzio Monaldini in 1783. See Anthony Blunt, 'Jacques Stella, the De Masso family and falsifications of Poussin', Burlington Magazine vol. CXVI, December 1974, pp.744-749; and also, by the same author, 'Poussin studies XIII: early falsifications of Poussin', Burlington Magazine, vol. 104, No.716 (Nov. 1962) p.486-498
Summary
(Folio 16, recto, upper print displayed horizontally on page). From a series of twenty-two plates depicting the life of the Virgin. Plate II Anna in the Temple Sheet 16
Marks and inscriptions
'Nic. Poussin inv.', 'F. Polanzani sculp.', and two lines of Latin inscription.
Makers and roles
after Nicolas Poussin (Les Andeleys, Normandy 1594 – Rome 1665), creator Jacques Stella (Lyon 1596 - Paris 1657), creator Francesco Polanzani (1700-1783) , creator