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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
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Production date: 1560
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Dimensions: Height: 322 millimetres; Width: 223 millimetres
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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
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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

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