Tomb of Cecilia Metella, no date

  • C. Fischer, German
  • Nicolas Poussin, French, 1594-1665

Etching and engraving in ink on chine colle

  • Image: 11 1/2 × 9 3/8 inches (29.2 × 23.8 cm) Sheet: 24 × 18 7/8 inches (61 × 47.9 cm) Overall (chine colle): 14 1/8 × 11 5/8 inches (35.9 × 29.5 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S491

Signed, in pencil, lower right: Fischer sc. Signed, lower left: Poussin p.

Marked, drystamp, center bottom margin: GESELLSCHAFT FUR VERVIELPALT. KUNST WIEN

Inscribed, in ink, along left bottom edge: No. 491. The Tomb of Cecilia Metella - By - C. Fischer.

1882, (Wunderlich & Co., New York, USA) Mrs. James E. Scripps [Harriet J.]

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

C. Fischer; after Nicolas Poussin, Tomb of Cecilia Metella, no date, etching and engraving in ink on chine colle. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S491.