Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Engraving by J. Pesne after N. Poussin.

  • Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665.
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[between 1600 and 1699 - 1693]
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548025i
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Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Engraving by J. Pesne after N. Poussin. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[between 1600 and 1699 - 1693]

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1 print : line engraving and etching ; image 44.8 x 57.3 cm

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Testament d'Eudamidas de la ville de Corinthe. ... N. Poussin pinxit ; Ex museo J. Formont S.r de Venne. J. Pesne del. et sculps. cum privil. Regis Lettering continues: Je legue ma mere à Aretée pour la nourrir et en avoir soin dans sa vieillesse; Je legue ma fille à Charixene pour la marier avec un aussi grand dot quil pourra luy donner et si l'un ou l'autre vient cependant à mourir, j'entends que le legs, que je luy ay fait, revienne au survivant. Lucien dans le Toxaris.

References note

Georges Wildenstein, Les graveurs de Poussin au XVIIe siècle, Gazette des beaux-arts, 1957, pp. 245-246, n. 107
Richard Verdi, 'Poussin's Eudamidas: eighteenth-century criticism and copies', The Burlington magazine, 1971, 113: 513-524 (p. 513: this print "no later than 1693")

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Wellcome Collection 548025i

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