Eliezer and Rebecca (Poussin, Fitzwilliam)

Eliezer and Rebecca is a painting by Nicolas Poussin, dated to 1660–1665 by Denis Mahon and now in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

History

[edit]

Produced for Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo, a close friend of Poussin, its first sale record was in London in 1795.[1] It was finally sold to art historian (and Cambridge spy) Anthony Blunt in 1933 and bought from his estate by its present owner in 1984.[1] It shows Rebecca quenching Eliezer's thirst.[1]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c "Catalogue entry". Fitzwilliam Museum.