© National Museum Cardiff
Collection of 9 etchings and engravings
Various
- Art Funded
- 1929
- Bequeathed by
- Charles Marten Powell through The Art Fund
Part of a bequest to eight museums by Charles Marten Powell through the Art Fund in 1929.
© National Museum Cardiff
Part of a bequest to eight museums by Charles Marten Powell through the Art Fund in 1929.
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.