Study for "The Triumph of Bacchus"
Framed: 21 3/16 x 18 1/8 x 2 3/8 inches (53.82 x 46.04 x 6.03 cm)
European Drawings, 1450-1900, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, February 25-March 28, 1964, no. 13, as Study for The Triumph of Bacchus.
Old Master Drawings from American Collections, April 29-June 13, 1976, no. 144, as The Triumph of Bacchus.
Poussin Sacraments and Bacchanals, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, October 16-December 13, 1981, no. 25, as The Indian Triumph of Bacchus.
Gods of High Olympus, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 15-March 20, 1983, no. 49, as “Study for ‘The Triumph of Bacchus.’”
Poussin: The Early Years in Rome. The Origins of French Classicism, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, September 24-November 27, 1988, hors cat.
Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, MO, September 22-December 3, 1989; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 17-March 25, 1990,unnumbered, as Study for “The Triumph of Bacchus.”
Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, September 27, 1994-January 2, 1995, no. 57, as Le triomphe de Bacchus (en Inde?).
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 24, as Study for “The Triumph of Bacchus.”
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as Study for “The Triumph of Bacchus.”
Dürer to Tiepolo: Works on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 12, 2012-June 9, 2013, no cat., as Study for “The Triumph of Bacchus.”
With Émile Maurice Marignane, Paris and Caromb, France [1];
With Sotheby and Co., London, by May 1953;
Purchased from Sotheby’s by H. M. Calmann, London, May 1953-October 19, 1954;
Purchased from H. M. Calmann by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1954.
NOTES:
[1] Collector’s mark stamped in ink on verso: MG. See Frits Lugt, Les marques de collections de dessins et d’estampes, édition en ligne (Fondation Custodia, October 1, 2018), http://www.marquesdecollections.fr, no. 1872. Marignane (1879-1956) was a merchant of drawings, prints and paintings, and an art critic.
n.a., “Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, July-September 1954,” The Art Quarterly 18, no. 1 (Spring 1955): 86, (repro.), as Study for “The Triumph of Bacchus.”
Anthony Blunt and Walter Friedländer, Nicolas Poussin, exh. cat. (Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1959), 8-9, (repro.), as Study for the Triumph of Bacchus.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 105, (repro.), as Triumph of Bacchus.
Anthony Blunt, Nicolas Poussin, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1960), 152.
European Drawings, 1450-1900, exh. cat. (Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1964), unpaginated, (repro.), as Study for The Triumph of Bacchus.
Anthony Blunt, The Paintings of Nicolas Poussin: A Critical Catalogue (London: Phaidon, 1966), p. 97.
Anthony Blunt, Nicolas Poussin: A.W. Mellon Lectures, 1958, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Text (London: Phaidon, 1967), 137, (repro.), as The Triumph of Bacchus.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 176, 184, (repro.), as Triumph of Bachhus.
Walter Friedländer and Anthony Blunt, The Drawings of Nicolas Poussin, Catalogue raisonné, vol. 5 (London: Warburg Institute, University of London, 1974), no. 436, pp. 106-07, (repro.).
Ebria Feinblatt, Old Master Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976), 130, (repro.), as The Triumph of Bacchus.
Anthony Blunt, The Drawings of Poussin (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), 99, (repro.), as The Triumph of Bacchus.
Doris Wild, Nicolas Poussin (Zurich: Orell Füssli Verlag, 1980), 1: p. 64, 66; 2: p. 68.
Poussin, Sacraments and Bacchanals: Paintings and Drawings on Sacred and Profane Themes by Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665, exh. cat. (Edinburgh: Trustees of the National Gallery of Scotland, 1981), 54, (repro.), as The Indian Triumph of Bacchus.
Ross E. Taggart, Gods of High Olympus, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 14, 27, (repro.), as “Study for ‘The Triumph of Bacchus.’”
E. Cropper, “Review of Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Poussin: The Early Years in Rome. The Origins of French Classicism, exh. cat. by Konrad Oberhurber, 1988,” The Burlington Magazine 130, no. 1029 (December 1988): 962.
Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 7, 26, (repro.), as Study for “The Triumph of Bacchus.”
Hugh Brigstocke, A Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Nicolas Poussin from British Collections, exh. cat. (Oxford, UK: Ashmolean Museum, 1990), unpaginated, (repro.), as The Triumph of Bacchus.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 164, (repro.), as Study for “The Triumph of Bacchus.”
Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665, exh. cat. (Paris: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, 1994), 228, 231, (repro.), as Le triomphe de Bacchus (en Inde?).
Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665, Catalogue raisonné des dessins, vol. 1 (Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1994), no. 88, pp. 160-61, (repro.), as Le triomphhe de Bacchus (en Inde?).
Malcolm Bull, “Poussin’s Bacchanals for Cardinal Richelieu,” The Burlington Magazine 137, no. 1102 (January 1995): 5, 7-8, (repro.), as Study for the ‘Triumph of Bacchus.’
Hugh Brigstocke, “Book Reviews: The mystery of Poussin’s drawings; New clues, new solutions, and the inevitable red herring,” Apollo 142, no. 405 (New Series): 61.
Anthony Blunt, Nicolas Poussin (London: Pallas Athene, 1995), 137, (repro.).
Martin Clayton, Poussin Works on Paper: Drawings from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (London: Merrell Holberton, 1995), 102-03, (repro.), as The triumph of Bacchus.
Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 11, 94-96, 186, 225, (repro.), as Study for “The Triumph of Bacchus.”
Pierre Rosenberg, From Drawing to Painting: Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David and Ingres (The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Bollingen Series 35, no. 17) (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000), 43, (repro.), as The Triumph of Bacchus.
Delphine Bastet, “Étude iconographique des Bacchanales Richelieu de Nicolas Poussin,” Studiolo 4 (2006): 175, (repro.), as Le Triomphe de Bacchus (en Inde?).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 74, (repro.), as Study for “The Triumph of Bacchus.”
Shelley Karen Perlove and George S. Keyes, Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014).
