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The Assumption of the Virgin
c. 1630/1632 · oil on canvas · National Gallery of Art, Washington
For the Assumption · 15 August
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All editionsAbout this painting
A white cloth hangs over the side of an empty stone coffin, and putti drop white flowers into it. Above, Our Lady rises between fluted columns, borne up by putti, her face lifted and one hand held out open. The Web Gallery of Art finds two things unusual: the Virgin shown in profile, and no apostles gathered at the tomb. In the Golden Legend they open the sepulchre and find not the body, only the vestments and the sudary. Poussin keeps the cloth and leaves the men out. After long debate, the painting is now generally agreed to be his own, from the first years of the 1630s. Nobody is left at the tomb but the putti, and you.
Sources: Web Gallery of Art, 'Assumption of the Virgin by POUSSIN, Nicolas', commentary. · Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend, 'The Assumption of the Glorious Virgin our Lady Saint Mary', William Caxton's translation, vol. 4, Christian Classics Ethereal Library. · National Gallery of Art, Washington, artist page 'Nicolas Poussin' (legacy URL; canonical https://www.nga.gov/artists/1798-nicolas-poussin), biography and image description for The Assumption of the Virgin, read 2026-08-31 and 2026-09-01. · National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'The Assumption of the Virgin', accession 1963.5.1, legacy object page, read 2026-09-01. · pubhist.com, 'Nicolas Poussin - The Assumption of the Virgin', record w4862. · National Gallery of Art, Washington, provenance entity 'Vincenzo Giustiniani'. · Artsy, National Gallery of Art partner record, 'The Assumption of the Virgin'.
The Record
The original, as its museum records it
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
The file this print is made from
| Artist | Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665) |
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| Date | c. 1630/1632 |
| Museum | National Gallery of Art, Washington |
| Accession | 1963.5.1 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | overall: 134.5 × 98.1 cm (52 15/16 × 38 5/8 in.); framed: 171.8 × 135.3 × 13.7 cm (67 5/8 × 53 1/4 × 5 3/8 in.) |
| Sheet sizes | 18×24 in, 24×36 in, 32×48 in, 40×60 in |
| Held by | National Gallery of Art, Washington · 1963.5.1 the museum’s record |
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| Source file | the National Gallery of Art’s own open-access file (IIIF) |
| Licence | public domain; the file released under CC0 |
| Master | 13,069 × 17,892 px, the file our printer receives |
| Chain | Taken from the National Gallery of Art’s own open-access file (IIIF) on 1 September 2026; held as our print master. |
The sheets
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 17,892 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.