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SUIVEUR DE FRANÇOIS CLOUET

Lot 52
26.03.2025 15:00UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
ID 1390039
Lot 52 | SUIVEUR DE FRANÇOIS CLOUET
Estimate value
€ 7 000 – 10 000
SUIVEUR DE FRANÇOIS CLOUET
Charles IX, à cheval
graphite, aquarelle et gouache réhaussée d'or sur vélin, monté sur un panneau de bois biseauté
28,5 x 21,5 cm (11 ¼ x 8 ½ in.)




Provenance

Probablement H. G. Bolen, Angleterre (selon le numéro d'inventaire Christie's ‘24V’, verso).
Collection particulière anglaise.



Further details

FOLLOWER OF FRANÇOIS CLOUET, AN EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF HENRI II, GRAPHITE, WATERCOLOUR AND BODYCOLOUR, HEIGHTENED WITH GOLD, LAID DOWN ON PANEL
This jewel-bright equestrian portrait of King Charles IX (1550-1574) takes as the model for the king's head a drawing by François Clouet (c.1510-1572), now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (RESERVE BOITE FOL-NA-22), executed in 1572 when the young king was twenty-two. There is also a drawing in black stone and red chalk by François Clouet, at the Musée Condé in Chantilly (inv. PD 363; A. Zvereva, ‘Les Valois à cheval’ in A cheval. Le portrait équestre dans la France de la Renaissance, exhib. cat. Ecouen, musée national de la Renaissace, 2024, fig.6, ill.)
Another version of the composition, dating to circa 1575, is held in the National Museum in Stockholm (NMB 1668; Ibid., fig. 8, ill.). It appears to be related to a suite of equestrian portraits of the kings of France, notably Henry II (1519-1559), Henry III (1551-1589) and Henry IV (1553-1610) (inv. nos. PE 281, PE283 and PE 286), now in the musée Condé in Chantilly. The present work, as well as the drawings in Chantilly, take up a theme more widely disseminated through engravings. The kings are not shown in armour, but in large, sumptuously embroidered parade dress, with equally richly adorned mounts who wear a fleur-de-lis saddle cloth, as they would have been on official occasions.
The third son of Henry II and his wife Catherine de Médicis (1519-1589), Charles IX became King of France aged just ten following the premature death of his brother, François II (1544-1560). During his minority, his mother governed his fragile kingdom, which was divided between Catholics and Protestants. Declared of age in 1563, he embarked on a grand tour of France organised by Catherine de Médicis with the aim of showing off the king to his subjects and pacifying religious unrest. However, this project did not work and the Wars of Religion resumed, culminating in the St Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572.
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