It’s a slow afternoon, and I’ve nothing on my mind — nothing except this drawing by Poussin (detail). It wasn’t just Cy Twombley’s obituary that made me think of it, but of course that was part of the spark. I spent a lot of time (for me) with this drawing when it at the Museum in the spring of 2008. And I’m very fond of the last line of Pierre Rosenberg’s catalogue entry. “Two tiny figures at the entrance to the fortifications [not shown] provide an indication of the dimensions of these buildings from the environs of Rome, which one hopes will be identified someday.” Now, that’s scholarship.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 at 6:00 pm.