1946.5: René II de La Jaille

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1946.5

People

François Clouet, French (1510 - 1572)
Previously attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger, German (Augsburg, Germany 1497/98 - 1543 London, England)

Title

René II de La Jaille

Other Titles

Former Title: Portrait of La Jaille

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1550

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297286

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and red chalk with traces of white chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount

Dimensions

29.2 x 20.5 cm (11 1/2 x 8 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: old mount, upper center: La Jaille

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Catherine de' Medici; Christina of Lorraine; William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough; Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough, by descent (as attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger); Edward M. Hodgkins, Paris and London; Charles Wickert, Paris; George Jay Gould I, Lakewood Township, New Jersey; his son, Kingdon Gould, Sr., by descent; his wife, Annunziata Camilla Maria Gould (née Lucci), by descent; Castano Galleries, Boston, sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1946, inv. no. 1946.5

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing, William M. Prichard, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Funds

Accession Year

1946

Object Number

1946.5

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

René II de La Jaille is represented in simple unornamented dress. His short dark hair, which is inclined to curl, is brushed back from his face. There is a lively, almost mocking expression in his eyes, the faintest hint of a cynical smile on his lips.

Publication History

• Unidentified Author, "Corrections", Art News, Art News Associates (New York, 1946), vol. 45, no. 5, July, p. 58, p. 58
• Agnes Mongan, "New Clouets Come to Light in Cambridge", Art News, Art News Associates (New York, 1946), vol. 45, no. 1, March, pp. 24-25, 69-70, pp. 25, 70 (erroneously confused with 1979.42)
• Fogg Art Museum, The Bulletin of the Fogg Museum of Art (Cambridge, MA, 1946), n.p., repr. on cover (as attributed to François Clouet)
• Agnes Mongan, "A Group of Newly Discovered Sixteenth-Century French Portrait Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1947), vol. 1, no. 2, Spring, pp. 155-75, pp. 163-64, 166, pl. IV, repr.
• George L. Stout, Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Art of Europe during the XVIth-XVIIth Centuries, exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, 1948), cat. no. 36, p. 34
• Agnes Mongan, ed., One Hundred Master Drawings, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1949), p. 60, repr. (as François Clouet)
• Agnes Mongan, French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, 1951), cat. no. 3, n.p.
• Agnes Mongan, De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins français des collections américaines, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, 1958), cat. no. 4, pl. 3, repr.
• Agnes Mongan, Van Clouet tot Matisse: tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties, exh. cat., Museum Boymans (Rotterdam, 1958), cat. no. 4, pl. 3, repr.
• Agnes Mongan, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1959), cat. no. 4, p. 29, pl. 3, repr.
• William H. Gerdts and Elaine Evans Gerdts, Old Master Drawings, exh. cat., The Newark Museum (Newark, 1960), cat. no. 19, n.p., repr.
• Ruth T. Constantino, How to Know French Antiques, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. (New York, 1961), p. 99, repr.
• Agnes Mongan, Great Drawings of All Time, ed. Ira Moskowitz and Victoria Thorson, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 646, n.p., repr.
• Alexandra Zvereva, Les Clouet de Catherine de Médicis: chefs-d'œuvre graphiques du Musée Condé, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2002), pp. 18, 18 n. 54
• Alexandra Zvereva, Portraits dessinés de la cour des Valois: les Clouet de Catherine de Médicis, Arthena (Paris, 2011), cat. no. 316, pp. 184, 328-29, repr.
• Bruno Chanetz, Le Château de la Grande-Jaille: 800 ans d'histoire en Loudunais, Bruno Chanetz (Sammarçolles, 2013), p. 17, repr.
• Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), p. 22

Exhibition History

• Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Art of Europe during the XVIth-XVIIth Centuries, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, 01/01/1948 - 12/31/1948
• Seventy Master Drawings: A Loan Exhibition arranged in honor of Professor Paul J. Sachs on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/01/1948 - 12/31/1949
• French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/15/1951 - 09/30/1951
• Cranach to Clouet Portrait Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/23/1951 - 12/31/1951
• French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 07/31/1958 - 09/28/1958; Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 10/24/1958 - 01/02/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02/03/1959 - 03/15/1959
• Old Master Drawings, The Newark Museum, Newark, 03/17/1960 - 05/22/1960

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