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The Abduction of the Sabine Women
The Abduction of the Sabine Women detail The Abduction of the Sabine Women detail
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Abduction of the Sabine Women

probably 1633–34
Nicolas Poussin visual detail
ArtistNicolas Poussin
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Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
60 7/8 x 82 5/8 in. (154.6 x 209.9 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Object number
46.160
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946

Market Intelligence

Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.

Public evidence
Last known price $90,000 Dealer sale · Nov 8, 1946
+736.4% vs previous observed sale
Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional
1946 · $10,7601946 · $90,000
$11K1946
$90K1946
Last known price$90,0002 matched observed sales
Observed median$50,380
Observed sales2
Artist index—
1946-11-08Dealer sale$90,000.00
1946-05-09Dealer purchase$10,760.00
Artist index unavailableInsufficient qualifying evidence; no synthetic curve is published.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.

Comparable Sales

Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.

Evidence ranked
No public-rights comparable sales meet the current evidence criteria. RELICT does not fill the table with research-only or licensed-only facts.

Provenance

Public
$4b

$4b

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Source provenance text

$4b

The Metropolitan Museum of Artconfidence 100%

Exhibitions

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Source exhibition text

$4b

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Sourced Overview Evidence

This painting embodies Poussin’s innovations derived from studying Roman antiquity. Figural groups, several closely based on ancient sculptures, evoke the choreography of dancers caught mid-action on stage, while the complex interplay of drapery woven between the figures reveals Poussin as a master colorist. Poussin arranged wax figures in a tiny, theater-like box to establish the sophisticated spatial relationships and formal balance of such paintings. The violent subject comes from a founding myth for the city of Rome: Romans invited the neighboring Sabines to a festival with the intention of forcibly capturing their women as wives. When the Roman leader Romulus raised his cloak—seen here at left—his warriors seized them. This painting belonged to the French ambassador to Rome in the 1630s and then to King Louis XIII’s chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu.

The Metropolitan Museum of Artconfidence 100%

Evidence state

2 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.

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