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(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
The Dauphin François D'Angouleme
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

The Dauphin François D'Angouleme

painter (Netherlandish, died 1575)
Dateabout 1536
Place MadeFrance, Europe
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions15 x 13 cm (5 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP21s23
eMuseum ID718586
EmbARK ObjectID10723
TMS Source ID0
Last Updated10/31/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesArt Exhibition: Mrs. John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon St., Boston. Exh. cat. (Boston, 1899), p. 7, no. 16. (as by François Clouet)
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 16. (as by Clouet)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 100-101, ill. (as after Corneille de Lyon, about 1536)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 184-85. (as by or after Corneille, painted soon before the Dauphin's death in 1536)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 58-59, ill. (as after Corneille, about 1536)
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 40, 58, 60, n1.
MarksNotesInscribed (on a paper label affixed to the panel, verso): 233 / D. Cu... [illegible]
ProvenanceNotesAcquired by the merchant Luigi Bonomi, Milan, early 19th century (?).
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner (as the work of the French arist François Clouet, about 1516-1572) from the Bonomi-Cereda collection, Milan for 8,400 lire on 22 May 1895, through the American art historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959).
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