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drawing
Object Type
drawing
Museum number
1910,0212.70
Description
Portrait of Renée de Lorraine, Duchess of Bavaria (1544-1602); half-length turned slightly to left, looking to front, wearing a bejewelled dress with tight bodice and high, frilled collar and a head-dress also adorned with jewels. c.1560 Black chalk, with red and yellow chalk
Producer name
Drawn by:
François Clouet
School/style
French
Production date
1560
Materials
paper
Technique
drawn
Dimensions
Height:
322 millimetres
Width:
223 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Étienne Moreau-Nélaton: 'Crayons François de la Collection de M.G. Salting', no. 18; A. Zvereva, 'Portraits dessinés de la cour des Valois: Les Clouet de Catherine de Médicis', Paris, 2011, no. 271. The Duchess was married in 1568 to William V, Duke of Bavaria. A copy of the drawing is in the Uffizi and another in the Morgan Library, New York. Zvereva detects traces of a workshop hand in the relatively mechanical hatching of the costume.
Bibliographic references
Zvereva 2011 / Portraits dessinés de la cour des Valois: Les Clouet de Catherine de Médicis
(271)
Dimier 1924-1926 / Histoire de la peinture de portrait en France au XVIe siècle accompagnée d'un catalogue de tous les ouvrages subsistant en ce genre
(1223)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Renée de Lorraine, Duchess of Bavaria
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
George Salting
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Catherine de' Medici, Queen and Regent of France
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Christina of Lorraine
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Ignazio Enrico Hugford
Previous owner/ex-collection:
John Bouverie
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Christopher Hervey
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Elizabeth Bouverie
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Sir Gerard Noel Noel
Acquisition date
1910
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1910,0212.70