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What happened to Nicolas Poussin’s painting The Death of the Virgin after the French Revolution?
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Nicolas Poussin
Adoration of the Golden Calf, oil on canvas by Nicolas Poussin, c. 1634. 153.4 × 211.8 cm.
Following the French Revolution, Nicolas Poussin’s 1623 painting The Death of the Virgin went missing and was known for nearly two centuries only through a preparatory drawing.1
The painting was eventually rediscovered in the 21st century in a small church located in the town of Sterrebeek, outside Brussels, and has since been restored. Prior to this discovery, the work was considered lost, and the "Marino drawings" were the only certain surviving examples of Poussin's pre-Roman artistic period.1