- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1949.5
- People
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François Clouet, French (1510 - 1572)
- Title
- Portrait of Claude Gouffier de Boisy
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Portrait of an Unknown Man
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1555
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297712
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black and red chalk with touches of white chalk on discolored cream antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 31.8 x 22.8 cm (12 1/2 x 9 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: upper left, brown ink: Debosy
- watermark: crown
- Provenance
- Catherine de Medici; Christine of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany; Ignatius Hugford; Marquis de Biron; Alphonse Kann, sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949, inv. no. 1949.5
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
- Accession Year
- 1949
- Object Number
- 1949.5
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Winslow Ames, Drawings: Fourth Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat., Lyman Allen Museum (New London, CT, 1936), cat. no. 50, pl. 50, repr.
Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), cat. no. 569, fig. 284, repr.
Agnes Mongan, De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins français des collections américaines, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, 1958), cat. no. 6, pl. 5, repr.
Agnes Mongan, Van Clouet tot Matisse: tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties, exh. cat., Museum Boymans (Rotterdam, 1958), cat. no. 6, pl. 5, repr.
Agnes Mongan, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1959), cat. no. 6, p. 30, pl. 5, repr.
Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 15, repr.
Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 32, n.p., pl. 32, repr.
Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), cat. no. 265, p. 227, repr.
Thea Burns, The Invention of Pastel Painting, Archetype Publications (London, 2007), pp. 34, 167, fig. 20, repr.
- Exhibition History
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Fourth Anniversary Exhibition; Drawings, Lyman Allen Museum, New London, 03/02/1936 - 04/15/1936
Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
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
Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995
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