Massacre of the Innocents (school of Poussin) Pillow

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Size 17" × 18"

✓ Jacquard-woven cotton · ✓ Soft & reversible · ✓ Made to order for you

This double-sided sheet is catalogued as School of Nicolas Poussin: a composition study of the Massacre of the Innocents in pen and ink on the recto, with additional figure sketches on the verso, drawn by a follower working in Poussin's manner rather than by Poussin himself. The subject, Herod's slaughter of the infants of Bethlehem described in the Gospel of Matthew, was one Poussin treated in a celebrated painting of his own, now in the Musée Condé at Chantilly, and its dramatic violence and classical figure grouping made it a popular subject for study among his circle. Two-sided sheets like this one give a rare glimpse into the exploratory process behind Baroque history painting. It is held in the Art Institute of Chicago's Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection.

Jacquard-woven both sides in soft, durable yarn; insert included.