Photo: courtesy of Sotheby's
The arms of its original owner have been erased, presumably because the cup came on the market in the early 19th century.
William Lewis Hughes (1767-1835); Sir Ernest Cassel; then by descent.
Nineteen of Nicolas Poussin's paintings take Moses as their subject. The Finding of Moses from 1651 is distinguished not only by the animated detail of the foreground scene, but also by the accuracy of the archaeological background.
A late still life, Picasso's Nature Morte aux Poron reworks the classic genre as an exercise in Cubist angularity. While the palette reflects the artist's post-war shift away from darker colours in favour of brighter, lighter shades, the objects themselves are long-established symbols in the artist's artistic vocabulary.
