Bacchus and Erigone, by Nicolas Poussin

An image of Bacchus and Erigone (?) Two rough sketches, a crouching woman with a standing figure beside her and another figure group. Poussin, Nicolas (French, 1594-1665). Recto: pen with some bistre wash; verso: red chalk on buff paper, height 177 mm, width 147 mm.

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Bacchus and Erigone (?) Two rough sketches, a crouching woman with a standing figure beside her and another figure group. Poussin, Nicolas (French, 1594-1665). Recto: pen with some bistre wash; verso: red chalk on buff paper, height 177 mm, width 147 mm.

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Accession Number: 3097
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 807 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 244.39kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2013:09:05 11:23:29

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17th Century animals Bacchus Classicism Dionysos Dionysus drawing Erigone female nude Fitz_PDP French goats gods male male nude metamorphoses mythological mythology Nicolas Poussin Ovid Poussin wine

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