The Adoration of the Magi Type:unstretched canvas velvet and brocade

velvet and brocade

According to the artist's notebook

22 January 1898 (lot 88) records a traditional identification of the sitter as Lady Anne Walpole (1733-97)

56 x 70cm) - and certain elements (the trees and distant mountain) certainly appear fine enough to be from Both's own hand

Keeper of Pictures to George III

The Adoration of the Magi Type:unstretched canvas velvet and brocadeThis is a 17th century copy of Poussin's 'Adoration of the Magi' in the Gemldegalerie, Dresden, signed and dated 1633. Its spatial construction, as well as the arrangement of the figures, is inspired by Raphael's fresco of the same subject in the Vatican Logge and shows the influence of Annibale Carracci and Domenichino. This marked an important turn in Poussin's style: a step away from the earlier influence of Titian and the sensuous colouring of the