Landscape with a Snake, or The Effects of Terror
Etienne Baudet, French, about 1636 - 1711
after Nicolas Poussin, French, 1594 - 1665
1701
Engraving on laid paper
Plate: 22 3/8 × 29 7/16 in. (56.9 × 74.8 cm)
Sheet: 24 13/16 × 34 3/16 in. (63 × 86.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund, the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund, the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund, the Julia L. Whittier Fund, and the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
PR.997.3.1
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: P. Par N. Poussin; lower right: G. par E. Baudet Gr. Ord. du R. aux Gall. du Louvre a Paris. 3; lower center: Dedie a Louis le Grand Roy de France et de Navarre./ par Son tres obeissant Serviteur et sujet. E. Baudet. / Divers effets d'horreur et de crainte sont icy exprimes. Une jeune homme mort proche d'une fontaine a tout le corps enveloppe par un serpent d'une grandeur enorme: Cet aspect effroyable fair fuir un autre homme dont les regards troublez et les cheveux herissez sur son front epouvantent / une femme plus eloignee assise au bord du chemin: Et les cris de celle cy font encore plus loing tourner la teste a quelques pescheurs dont un est assir aupres d'un grand lac avec ses compagnons qui jouent a la mourre, Et d'autres conduisent une barque et retirent leurs filest. L'on tient que le Poussin peignit ce / tableau a l'occasion d'un accident semblable qui arriva de son temps aux environs de Rome.; inscribed, in brown ink, lower right: Sl.
Exhibition History
Remembrance of Things Past: Prints and Photographs from the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-September 3, 2000.
Provenance
James A. Bergquist, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 1997.
Catalogue Raisonne
G. Wildenstein, Les graveurs de Poussin au XVIIe Siecle, Paris, 1957, no. 180.
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