c. 1650
34.5 x 26.5 cm (13 9/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
The artist's estate; his niece, Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella, Paris; Michel de Masso, Paris, by descent; Gaetano Minossi, Rome (by c. 1756); Thomas Talbot, Margam Castle, Port Talbot, Wales (as Nicolas Poussin; by c. 1776); Lady Beythswood, Penrice Castle, Glamorgan, Gower Peninsula, Wales, by descent; Christopher Methuen-Campbell, Penrice Castle, Glamorgan, Gower Peninsula, Wales, by descent; sale, Christie’s, London, 9 December 1986, lot 123 (as "Presentation in the Temple"); sale, Christie’s, New York, 13 January 1987, lot 105 (as "Sacrifice of Anna"); Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London; Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston (inv. no. D-F-268); Harvard Art Museums/ Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz in honor of James Cuno, 2006.318
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white gouache on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk, and black ink, with touches of white gouache, on blue antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk, squared in black chalk
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryFrenchRed chalk, gray wash, and graphite, framing lines in graphite and black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
17th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on tan antique laid paper
17th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down
17th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, watercolor, and white gouache over graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper prepared with white gouache, adhered to canvas
17th-18th centuryFrench, LorraineseBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryFrenchColored chalks with touches of pastel on tan antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper, laid down on gray wove paper
17th centuryFrenchRed chalk with traces of graphite on tan antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk and graphite
17th centuryFrenchBrown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down cream antique laid paper, laid down on an off-white wove card
17th centuryFrench