Design for a Burgonet Helmet, c. 1545

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with gray wash over black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 34.9 x 42 cm (13 3/4 x 16 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection

Accession Number

1993.51.4

Artists / Makers

Jean Cousin the Elder (artist) French, c. 1490 - c. 1560

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right in brown ink: 189

Provenance

Chevalier de Kirschbaum, sold 1840; Hippolyte-Alexandre-Gabriel-Walter Destailleur [1822-1893] (Lugt 740), Paris (sale, Paris, Morgaud, 26-27 May 1893, lot 7 [to Beurdeley for 11,550 fr.]); Alfred Beurdeley [1847-1919], Paris (sale, Paris, Rahir, 31 May 1920, lot 123); H. Grosjean-Maupin (his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 26-27 March 1958, lot 43, as Delaune); (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 15 March 1989, lot 44, as Rosso Fiorentino); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1993.

Associated Names

Beurdeley, Alfred
Destailleur, Hippolyte-Alexandre-Gabriel-Walter
Drouot, Hôtel
Grosjean-Maupin, H.
Kirschbaum, Chevalier de
Morgaud
Rahir
Woodner Family Collection, Inc., Ian, The
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 23 (as attributed to Rosso Fiorentino).

1993: Nine Old Master Drawings: Recent Gifts from the Woodner Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993 (checklist only) (as Fontainebleau School).

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 51, as "Design for a Parade Morion."

2006: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 28-29, 275, no. 5.

2017: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 51.