Conservationists say long-believed fake Poussin painting is real
By The Triumph of Silenus, painted in about 1637, is one of three commissioned by Cardinal de Richelieu. Image courtesy of the National Gallery in London
April 29 (UPI) A painting of a bacchanal long believed to be a copy of one by artist Nicolas Poussin has been revealed to be an original by the French painter after a recent evaluation and conservation efforts, London s National Gallery announced Thursday.
The museum is including the Baroque-style painting,
The Triumph of Silenus, in its upcoming exhibit, Poussin and the Dance. It will be the first exhibition dedicated entirely to the 17th century painter, who is known for his religious and mythological subject matter inspired by classical antiquity.
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It was bought by the National Gallery in the 1820s as a painting by Nicolas Poussin, the 17th-century French master. But The Triumph of Silenus â a bacchanalian revel â has long been relegated to the storerooms, having been repeatedly rejected by some of the 20th-centuryâs foremost experts as a mere copy.
Now doubts about the picture have been dispelled and it will hang in the main galleries with a new label bearing Poussinâs name.
It will also receive pride of place in a forthcoming Poussin exhibition organised by the National Gallery in London and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
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Art historians had previously asserted that The Triumph of Silenus was one of several copies after a lost Nicolas Poussin original
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Experts found that the figures in the picture appeared dull because they lay beneath a layer of discoloured varnish
Credit: The National Gallery, London
A National Gallery painting dismissed for decades as being a copy of one by Nicolas Poussin has been confirmed to be the real thing.
Former Surveyor of the Queen s Pictures Sir Anthony Blunt was among the art historians to assert that
A Bacchanalian Painting Once Thought to Be a Copy of a Poussin Has Been Reattributed to the French Master
Poussin’s The Triumph of Silenus will go on view at the National Gallery in London this fall.
The Triumph of Silenus, (c. 1637). © The National Gallery, London.
For decades, a playful painting thought to be a facsimile of a Nicolas Poussin original sat in the storerooms of London’s National Gallery. But this week, the painting was reattributed to the French master himself and will soon make its “triumphant” return to the museum’s walls.
Poussin’s
The Triumph of Silenus, painted around 1637, depicts the titular Greek god of wine and drunkenness, several drinks deep into a truly wild night. So sloshed is the bald, naked Silenus that he’s held up by two men in the left register of the painting. He’s even using a live tiger as a footrest. A tiger!
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