SEBASTIEN BOURDON. 1616-1671

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Oil on canvas. 77 X Ю2 cm. Inv. No 724 The subject is taken from the Bible (Gen. 8:20—21). The present work is a smaller replica of the picture belonging to the Arras Museum (formerly in The Louvre). Another variant on the same theme is in the Mu-see Fabre at Montpellier.

Provenance: 1867—1924 The Yusupovs Collection, Arkhangelskoye (near Moscow) and St Petersburg— Petrograd; since 1924 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibition: 1972 Prague, Cat. 4

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 47; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 20; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 28; Musee Youssou-poff 1839, No 185; Dussieux 1856, p. 444; Ch. Pon-sonailhe, Sebastien Bourdon, sa vie et son aeuvre, Paris, 1883, p. 286, 299; А. Прахов 1907, ill. 81; Бенуа 1912, p. 224; Кат. Юсуповской галереи 1920, No 76; Эрнст 1924, p. 16, ill.; Reau 1929, No 447; Sterling 1957, p. 26

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