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Nicolas Poussin
Landscape with a Building in Cross-section
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size: 218 x 357 mm, 8 ½ x 14 1/16 in.
technique: Pen, brown ink, brown wash, black chalk, squared in black chalk
provenance: Pierre Crozat with number 19 (L.3612); His sale, Paris, 10 April – 13 May 1741, include in one of the lots from 974 to 985; Private collection, France
description: Inscribed in pen and brown ink lower left: n. Poussin Inscribed in pen and gray ink lower right: 19.
Description
The balanced composition of the drawing, with its monument, the embankment in the foreground, the water and its reflections so present in Poussin’s work, evokes the paintings Landscape with a Man Killed by a Serpent in The National Gallery, London as well as Landscape with Buildings in the Prado Museum, Madrid. The background of the drawing, with the winding path that takes us to a town at the foot of the mountains finds a certain resemblance to that of the painting Landscape with a Dirt Road in the National Gallery, London. Like the building in ruins, our sheet is a synthesis: it defines the artist as much in his erudition and his intellectual practice, as in his sincere and deep love for nature.
Additional information
| size: | 218 x 357 mm, 8 ½ x 14 <sup>1/16</sup> in. |
|---|---|
| technique: | Pen, brown ink, brown wash, black chalk, squared in black chalk |
| provenance: | Pierre Crozat with number 19 (L.3612); |
| description: | Inscribed in pen and brown ink lower left: n. Poussin |
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