1949.5: Portrait of Claude Gouffier de Boisy

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.5

People

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

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

• inscription: upper left, brown ink: Debosy
• watermark: crown

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

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

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

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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.
• 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

• 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; The Museum of Modern Art, 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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