©Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge

Mourners after "Sacrament of Extreme Unction" by Nicolas Poussin

[Les pleureuses d'après Poussin]

MS : 4278
Museum
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge - Massachusetts - Etats-Unis
Inv. 1943.811

The Artwork

Dimensions
47.6 × 30.9 cm - 18 3/4 × 12 3/16 in.
Period
Circa 1856
Medium
Craie noire
Stamp
ATELIER ED.DEGAS (au verso) ; Vente Degas (au recto en bas à gauche)

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas - Vente Degas, 1919, IV, n° 85.c (repr.) - New York, Scott & Fowiles ? - Grenville L. Winthrop, 16 octobre 1920 - Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1943. [Don Winthrop].

Exhibitions

Cambridge,Fogg Art Museum, 24 favril-20 mai 1961, Ingres and Degas ; Two Classical Draughtmen, n° 14.

Bibliography

Reff, "Degas's Copies of Older Art", Burlington Magazine, juin 1953, fig. 7, p. 246 - Alexander Wald, Cat. exp. "Degas and the Opera : Wolrds in Transition", Harvard University Art Museums Gallery Series, 1993, n° 1 (repr.) - Pierre Rosenberg, Cat. exp. Grand Palais, 1994, Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665, n° 107, fig. 107 a - Marjorie Cohn, Jean Boggs, Cat. exp. Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, 2005, n° 28, fig. 60.

Last updated : 11/02/2026