ID 1132791
Lot 95 | FRANÇOIS CLOUET (TOURS CIRCA 1510-1572 PARIS) AND WORKSHOP
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 20 000
Portrait of Elisabeth, daughter of Henri II of France
inscribed and dated ‘Margarite’ and ‘34’ (lower left) and numbered 'No 2915' (on the mount), '43' (on a label of the mount)
black and red chalk, brown pastel
13 1⁄8 x 9 in. (33 x 22.7 cm)
Provenance
Count Karl Cobenzl (1712-1770), Vienna and Brussels (L. 2858b).
Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (1729-1796).
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg (L. 2061 and L. 2681a); C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 29 April 1931, lot 47.
Halle, Munich.
Robert T. Paine II (1861-1943), Brookline; by descent to
Richard C. Paine (1893-1966), Boston; by descent to
John D. Constable (1927-2016), Cambridge MA; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
E. Moreau-Nélaton, Crayons Français à Chantilly, Paris, 1910, I, p. 96, under no. 41.
E. Moreau-Nélaton, Les Clouets et leurs Émules, Paris, 1924, II, p. 87, ill.
L. Dimier, Portraits en France, Paris and Brussels, Paris, 1925, II, p. 118, no. 34 (as François Clouet).
A. Mongan, ‘A Group of Newly Discovered Sixteenth-Century French Portrait Drawings’, Harvard Library Bulletin, I, no. 2 (Spring 1947), p. 159 (as François Clouet).
R. Shoolman, C.E. Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America, New York, 1950, p. 12, ill. (as François Clouet).
J. Coolidge, ‘Report of the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, Appendix II: Lending and Borrowing’, Annual Report Fogg Art Museum, 1951-1952, p. 23 (as François Clouet).
A. Zvereva, Portraits dessinés de la cour de Valois. Les Clouet de Catherine de Médicis, Paris, 2011, p. 301, under no. 252 (as François Clouet and workshop).
Exhibited
Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, 1935, no. 34, ill. (as François Clouet).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Art in New England. Paintings, Drawings, Prints from Private Collections in New England, 1939, no. 150, ill. (as François Clouet).
Cambridge MA, Fogg Art Museum, Cranach to Clouet. Princely Portrait Drawings of the Northern Renaissance, 1951 (without catalogue).
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