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Catalogue raisonné: Description in Flemish paintings C. 1600-C. 1800 III, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2010, cat.no. 8: 

Technical notes: The support consists of a single
piece of fabric, probably linen woven in a plain-weave
technique. The painting was lined in 1942. Tacking
edges present along all sides. The motif continues
around the edges.

The fabric has been prepared with a ground and the
paint layer is opaque. The brush strokes are coarse and
not very well modulated. The figures are stiff and
schematically rendered. There are very few details of
leaves and figures. The painting style can be compared
with that of no. 7 and no. 9. The painting underwent
conservation treatment in 1923, 1942 and 1988.

Provenance: Martelli 1804, no. 188, (as Gaspard
Dughet); KM 1816, no. 239; (missing 29 November
1990).

Bibliography: Sander III, p. 109, no. 188 (as Gaspard
Poussin); Göthe 1887, p. 76, (as Gaspard Dughet);
Göthe 1893, p. 93 (as Gaspard Dughet); NM Cat. 1958,
p. 234 (as anonymous Italian master); NM Cat. 1990, p.
32, (as manner of Jan Frans van Bloemen).

A companion piece to the following work (no. 9). For
its history and provenance see no. 6.
A cistern with the figure of a sphinx is depicted in a
landscape with pines and around it five figures, one of
them a woman in a blue costume sitting on a stone
wall.

In Martelli’s inventory this and the three following
works are attributed to Nicolas Poussin and Gaspard
Dughet (also called Gaspard Poussin) but they have
gradually been downgraded. They belong rather to
Van Bloemen’s oeuvre but whether or not they are by
his hand alone cannot be determined.
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A cistern with the figure of a sphinx is depicted in a
landscape with pines and around it five figures, one of
them a woman in a blue costume sitting on a stone
wall.

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