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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.611
People
Wallerant Vaillant, Dutch (Lille, France 1623 - 1677 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Portrait of Hugues de Lionne
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1658
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294415

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk, charcoal, graphite, and blue pastel on blue paper; incised under chin
Dimensions
57.7 x 45.5 cm (22 11/16 x 17 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: upper left, graphite: W Vaillant fecit / 1658 / [flourish]
  • inscription: former mat, verso, upper left, graphite: Hugues de Lionne / WD-115
  • watermark: none
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: L1 [or 41?]
  • inscription: verso, upper right, red ink: No 1150

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Prince Dmitry Mikhaylovich Golitsyn (1721-1793), St. Petersburg and Vienna. [Sale, Drouot, Paris, 15 April 1863]. Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris, by descent; to his heirs. Ian Woodner, New York; Gift of Ian Woodner, 1986.610

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Ian Woodner
Accession Year
1986
Object Number
1986.611
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Carol C. Gillham and Carolyn H. Wood, European Drawings from the Collection of the Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC, 2001), under cat. no. 19, pp. 60-61 (n. 5)
  • William W. Robinson and Susan Anderson, Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2016), p. 289, under cat. no. 86

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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