Saint James the Great: the Virgin appears to him on a pillar by the river Ebro. Engraving attributed to A. Boilly, 1827, after Dubois after N. Poussin.

  • Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665.
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1827
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5602i
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Saint James the Great: the Virgin appears to him on a pillar by the river Ebro. Engraving attributed to A. Boilly, 1827, after Dubois after N. Poussin. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The Virgin is said to have appeared to Saint James the Great on top of a pillar on the banks of the river Ebro. The Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar (Catedral-Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar) was built on the site in Zaragoza

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1827

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1 print : engraving

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Saint Jacques le Majeur. Poussin, Ecole franç.se. Dessiné par Dubois. Gravé par Boilly. Bears number: No. 25

References note

Jean Laran and Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome III, Paris 1942, pp. 40-41, no. 12 ("Saint Jacques le Majeur sur les bords de l'Ebre, d'apr. Poussin, deux états et le dessin original de Dubois, dans le Musée royal de France, chez Mme Filhol, 1827. Réimpr. dans la Galerie du Musée de France, de Filhol, ibid., t. XI, 1828 (pl. 25)")

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Wellcome Collection 5602i

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Attributed in the Inventaire du fonds français, loc. cit., to Alphonse Boilly (1801-1864), youngest son of Louis Boilly. The draughtsman may be (Léon) Jean-Joseph Dubois (1780-1846)

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