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ANDREA GZÉRE: Nicolas Poussin's Allegory in the Collection of Drawings in Budapest
The article was written as part of the OTKA research project no. T 46616. NOTES I Pen and brown ink, grey wash, 181 x 328 nun, inv. no. 2880; paper later completed at the upper right corner; no watermark; provenance: Houlditch (Lugt 2214), Poggi (Lugt 617), Esterházy (Lugt 1965). Prince Aliklós Esterházy purchased the drawing in Paris on 21 July 1810, within the drawing collection of Antonio Cesare Poggi, amateur painter, collector and dealer born in Parma, for settling a life-annuity on the Poggi couple; see S. Meiler, Az Esterházy Képtár története [History of the Esterházy Gallery], Budapest 1915, EXIL Exhibitions: E. Hoffmann, Francia rajzok XV-XIX. század [French Drawings: 15th—19th Centuries], exh. cat., Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts 1933, no. 11; K. Oberhuber, Poussin: 'Ehe Early Years in Rome: 'Ehe Origins of Classicism, exh. cat., Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, New York 1988, 52, no. D2; V. Kaposy, Francia rajzok 11-19. század [French Drawings 17th—19th Centuries], guide, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts 1990, no. 114; P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665, exh. cat., Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais 1994, no. 5. Further bibliography: J. Thullier ami W. Vitzthum, "Un nouveau dessin de Poussin pour Marino, de France 2 (1969), 265; A. Blunt, The Drawings of Poussin, New Haven and London 1979, vol. 1, 160; P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665: Catalogne raisonné des dessins, 2 vols., Milan 1994, no. 18 (with previous literature); M.Clayton, Poussin: I Forks on Paper: Drawings from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Windsor, 'Ehe Royal Library and Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts 1995, 13-14, fig. 1. 3 Hoffmann 1933, no. 11. 4 It is also mentioned in this sense in a review on the œuvre-catalogue of drawings, see M. Clayton, "Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665: Catalogue raisonné des dessins," The Burlington Magazine CXXXVIII, no. 1120 (July 1996), 468, no. 18. For a summary of the problem, see Clayton 1995, 12—11. 6 Oberhuber 1988. Clayton 1995, 12-13; L. Pericolo, "Le 'fantasiette' di Nicolas Poussin per Giovan Battista Marino," Critica d'arte: Rivista trimestrale delTUniversità Internazionale dellArte di Firenze. LIV, no. 12 (December 2001), 41, note 18. 8 Clayton 1995, nos. 1 and 10. 9 Hoffmann 1933, no. 11. 10 Oberhuber 1988, 52, no. D2. II The Roman marble copy preserved at the Museo Capitolino in Rome was made after a Greek marble sculpture from the third century B.C., which was presumably one of the subordinate figures of the
