Inscription
upper left: . FRANCOIS . DVC . DALENCON . / . EAGE . DE . XVIII . ANS LE.XIX.E / . IONR . DE . MARS . AN . 1572 . / . FILS . DE . HENRY II.EDE CE . / NO M . ROY . DE . FRANCE .
Provenance
John Stuart Bligh, 6th earl of Darnley [1827-1896], Cobham Hall, Kent, by 1851;[1] by inheritance to his son, Edward Henry Stuart Bligh, 7th earl of Darnley [1851-1900], Cobham Hall; by inheritance to his brother, Ivo Francis Walter Bligh, 8th earl of Darnley [1859-1927], Cobham Hall; (Darnley sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1 May 1925, no. 57, as by François Pourbus); purchased by (M. Knoedler & Co., New York) and (P. & D. Colnaghi, London and New York);[2] sold November 1925 to Otto H. Kahn [1867-1934], New York;[3] his heirs; on consignment from 1942 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., New York, London, and Paris, as by Pieter Pourbus the Elder);[4] purchased 1947 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, as Attributed to François Clouet;[5] gift 1961 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1946
- Exhibition of Old Masters, Duveen Galleries, New York, 1946, no. 6, as by Frans Pourbus.
- 1951
- French Painting 1100-1900, Carnegie Institute, 1951, no. 45, as School of François Clouet.
- 1984
- William de Zwijger (William the Silent), Stedelijk Museum "Het Prinsenhof," Delft, The Netherlands; Musée de la Ville "Maison du Roi," Brussels, 1984, no 6.14.
- 2015
- Les Tudors, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2015, no. 84, fig. 136.
Bibliography
- 1854
- Waagen, Gustav Friedrich. Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss.. 3 vols. Translated by Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake. London, 1854: 3:25.
- 1920
- Errera, Isabelle. Répertoire des peintures datées. 2 vols. Brussels and Paris, 1920-1921: 1:134.
- 1931
- Kelly, Francis M. "On a miniature in the Jones Collection at South Kensington." Apollo 13 (1931): 17-19, repro.
- 1942
- Kelly, Francis M. "Caveat Emptor! II -- Some Pitfalls in Portraiture." The Connoisseur 110 (October 1942): 28, repro.
- 1946
- Breuning, Margaret. "Masters of Yesteryear." Art Digest 20, (15 February 1946): 7.
- 1946
- Frankfurter, Alfred M. “Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery.” Art News 44, no. 20 (February 1946): 33-34, repro.
- 1951
- Washburn, Gordon Bailey. "Eight Centuries of French Painting." Carnegie Magazine (June 1951): 224.
- 1958
- Sterling, Charles. Great French Painting in the Hermitage. New York, 1958: 232 n. 19.
- 1959
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 334, repro.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 53.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 45, repro.
- 1973
- Cazaux, Yves. Guillaume le Taciturne, comte de Nassau, prince d'Orange. Anvers, 1973: 412, 413, repro.
- 1974
- Fehl, Philipp P. "Vasari's 'Extirpation of the Huguenots.' The Challenge of Pity and Fear." Gazette des Beaux-Arts ser. 6, 84 (November-December 1974): 267-268, 269, repro.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 136, repro.
- 1977
- Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 257-258, fig. 240.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 227, no. 281, color repro., as by French School.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 24, repro.
- 1989
- Tortora, Phyllis G., and Keith Eubank. A Survey of Historic Costume. New York, 1989: 134, repro.
- 1992
- Hall, Nicholas H. J., ed. Colnaghi in America: A Survey to Commemorate the First Decade of Colnaghi, New York. New York, 1992: 134.
- 2004
- Goldring, Elizabeth. "The Earl of Leicester and Portraits of the Duc d'Alençon." The Burlington Magazine 146 (February 2004): 108-111, fig. 36.
- 2005
- Fahy, Everett, ed. The Wrightsman Pictures. New Haven, 2005: 18, under cat. 5, fig. 1.
- 2009
- Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: no. 48, 224-228, color repro.
Related Content
- Sort by:
- Results layout: