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ID number: BIRBI-38.9 Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Artist / Maker: Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Title / Object name / Definition: Tancred and Erminia Object type: Painting Place made: Rome Culture: French Date made: About 1634/5 Materials: Oil on canvas Measurements: 75.5 x 99.7 cm Provenance: Sir James Thornhill, 1717; Thornhill sale, 25 February 1734 (lot 98), purchased by William Lock; by descent, William Lock of Norbury Park, Surrey, 1761; Lock family until around 1816; Earl Poulett, Hinton House, Somerset; Poulett family until 1938; purchased from Frank Sabin in 1938 for £2,000. |
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Description: Tancred, a Christian warrior, lies wounded after slaying the giant Argantes, shown to the right. Tancred is helped by his squire and by Erminia, a Saracen princess, in love with the Christian knight. She cuts off her hair to bind his wounds. The putti in the dark sky illuminate the warrior, who will be restored to life and eventually united with Erminia. Notes: Exhibited: British Institution, 1816, no. 111; 'French Painting of the XVIIth century', Wildenstein Gallery, London, 1947, no. 38; 'Nicholas Poussin', Louvre, Paris, 1960, no. 53; 'Poussin, Sacraments and Bacchanals', National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1981, no. 14; 'Nicolas Poussin, 'Tancred and Erminia'', Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1992, no. 7; 'Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665', Grand Palais, Paris, 1994, no. 49; 'Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665', Royal Academy, London, 1995, no. 26; 'Dangerous Love Affairs', Germäldegalerie, Berlin, October 2009 - January 2010 |
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| The Seventeenth Century French Paintings Wine, H National Gallery Company Limited, London 2001 | |
| Poussin and the Poetics of Painting: Pictorial Narrative and the Legacy of Tasso Unglaub, J Cambridge University Press 2006 | |
| The paintings of Nicolas Poussin Blunt, A.F. 1996 | |
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