Poussin recovered, but is it a Poussin?

Att. to Poussin, here rejected, perhaps unknown 17th century Italianate artist, Baptism of Christ, detail, Italian police hand-out!

I’m hearing of the rescue of many stolen old masters by the Italian police, the famous carabinieri military police. See the Guardian article here. It records the finding of 37 works of art taken in an art theft in Rome in 1971. Artists mentioned are Van Dyck (Portrait of a Cavalier), Guido Reni and Poussin (Baptism of Christ). I can’t comment on van Dyck and Reni, but I know that this isn’t by the French master. The Guardian reports:

“It was one of the most audacious art thefts seen in Rome: one night in 1971 a gang of thieves slipped into the plush residence of a construction magnate in the upmarket Parioli neighbourhood and walked out with 42 rare paintings, including works by Van Dyck and Poussin.

Detectives soon concluded that the culprits were not members of the mafia, but beyond that, there were few concrete clues, and within days the trail had gone cold.

Now, four decades on, Italian police have recovered some of the stolen paintings from a house in the same district of the country's capital, where they were hanging proudly on the walls. As well as a Van Dyck portrait of a cavalier and a Poussin depiction of the baptism of Christ, the haul contains a Christ on the cross attributed to Rubens, now being verified by experts.

Italian painters Berlinghieri and Guido Reni are also included in the collection, which was described as an exceptional find by Rossella Vodret, an expert from the Italian culture ministry.”

Well, Rossella Vodret may an expert in the Italian culture ministry, but I’m a Poussin scholar and I don’t think I’m looking at one of his works. A clumsy composition- and those cherubs!As I spent a lot of time in my doctorate days looking at religious paintings by NP, I think I’m qualified to pronounce on this. So the owners bought a picture they thought was by Poussin, and the thieves stole it thinking the same? My guess is an Italianate painter trying to emulate Poussin, not very successfully. Or it could be a collaboration between Gaspar Poussin- Poussin’s brother-in-law-and an Italian artist?  But the figures are too monumental for Gaspard, yet parts of the landscape recall NP.

Still, I’m intrigued as to who the painter might be. I wish I had something better than a reproduction on a hand-out from the Italian police to go on!

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