Eliezer and Rebecca (Poussin, Fitzwilliam)
Painting by Nicolas Poussin
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Eliezer and Rebecca is a painting by Nicolas Poussin, dated to 1660–1665 by Denis Mahon. It is in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
History
The painting shows the biblical figure Rebecca quenching Eliezer's thirst.[1]
Produced for Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo, a close friend of Poussin, its first sale record was in London in 1795.[1] It was sold to art historian (and Cambridge spy) Anthony Blunt in 1933 and bought from his estate in 1984 by its present owner, the Fitzwilliam Museum.[1] Victor Rothschild gave Blunt £100 to purchase the painting.[2] The painting was sold by Blunt's executors for £100,000 (totalling £192,500 with tax remission[3]).
