Eliezer and Rebecca at the Well
Gilles Rousselet, French, 1610 - 1686
after Nicolas Poussin, French, 1594 - 1665
1677
Engraving on laid paper
Plate: 16 15/16 × 25 3/16 in. (43 × 64 cm)
Sheet: 17 15/16 × 25 9/16 in. (45.5 × 64.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund, the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund, the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund, the Julia L. Whittier Fund, and the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
PR.997.3.4
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: N. Poussin Pinx.; lower right: Oeg. Rousselet Sculp. 1677.; lower center: Rebecca vient puiser de l'eau a la fontaine, elle y rencontre le serviteur d'Abraham, / qui luy present de pendans d'oreille et des bracelets. Genes. chap. XXIV / Grave d'apres le tableau du Poussin, qui est dans le Cabinet du Roy, haut de 3 pieds 8 p. sur six pieds de large. Rebecca descendit ad fontem, occurrit ei seruus Abraham, et protulit ei inaures / aureas et armillas. Genes. cap. XXIV / Ad tabulam N. Pousin, tres pedes 8 pol. altam, sex pedes latam, asseruatam in Pinacotheca regia.
Exhibition History
Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7-September 9, 2001.
Publication History
T. Barton Thurber, "Survival and Revival of the Classical Tradition: Antiquity in Rome from the Baroque Era to the Age of Enlightenment." In T. Barton Thurber and Adrian W.B. Randolph, Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2001, pp.51-54, ill. p. 52, listed p.73.
Provenance
James A. Bergquist, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 1997.
Catalogue Raisonne
G. Wildenstein, Les graveurs de Poussin au XVIIe Siecle, Paris, 1957, no. 7.
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