drawing
- Museum number
- 1997,0927.3
- Description
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Portrait of Antoine Ranc, after Hyacinthe Rigaud; bust, wearing long curling wig, facing three-quarter right, base of a column to right; in an oval
Silverpoint on vellum
- Production date
- 1674-1735
- Dimensions
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Height: 99 millimetres
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Width: 80 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Ariane James-Sarazin pointed out that the portrait is not of Jean Ranc, as had been previously thought, but his father Antoine Ranc (1634-1716), the master of Hyacinthe Rigaud. The drawing is most likely a record made after Rigaud's painted portrait of Antoine Ranc of 1696 now in the musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne (inv. 859-3-27). Who made the drawing is difficult to establish, but the likeliest candidate is one of Rigaud's assistants, such as Jean Ranc.
Lit.: A. James-Sarazin, 'Hyacinthe et Gaspard Rigaud à Montpellier. Documents inédits', "Etudes héraultaises", 41, 2011, p. 4, ill. 7a, note 25, p. 11
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2001 May-Sep BM, P&D, 'Paper Assets' (no cat.)
- Acquisition date
- 1997
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1997,0927.3
